Jiddu Krishnamurti

Seeking.

Following a guru and using discipline.

How is that mind to be completely still?

if I do not know this stillness nor know what it is to love therefore I depend on another to love me now can I fathom this emptiness in myself this sense of complete isolation

or loneliness?

Do we ever come face to face with it at all?

Or are we always frightened of it?

Always running away from it?

the very process of running away from that loneliness is dependence.

So can my mind realize the truth that any form of running away from what is creates dependence, from which arises misfortune and sorrow?

It is very difficult and arduous because the mind is so used to distraction, so trained to go away from what is, to turn on the radio, to pick up a book, to talk,

to go to church, to go to a meeting, anything to enable it to wander away from the central fact that the mind in itself is empty.

However much it may struggle to cover up that fact, it is empty in itself.

When once it realizes that fact, can the mind remain in that state without any movement whatsoever?

It's beautiful to be alone.

To be alone does not mean to be lonely.

It means the mind is not influenced and contaminated by society.

It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

There is hope in people, not in society, not in systems, but in you and me.

To be free comes not from changing or fixing this world, but from seeing this world as it is.