Letter to his wife (Congo, My Country)
“If you don’t call it art, you’re likely to get a better result.”
March 24, 1995, p. 83
A Year With Swollen Appendices (1996)
Sixth Talk in New Delhi (31 October 1956) http://www.jkrishnamurti.org/krishnamurti-teachings/view-text.php?tid=570&chid=4889&w=%22It+seems+to+me+that+the+real+problem+is+the+mind+itself%22, J.Krishnamurti Online, JKO Serial No. 561031, Vol. X, p. 155
1950s
Context: It seems to me that the real problem is the mind itself, and not the problem which the mind has created and tries to solve. If the mind is petty, small, narrow, limited, however great and complex the problem may be, the mind approaches that problem in terms of its own pettiness. If I have a little mind and I think of God, the God of my thinking will be a little God, though I may clothe him with grandeur, beauty, wisdom, and all the rest of it. It is the same with the problem of existence, the problem of bread, the problem of love, the problem of sex, the problem of relationship, the problem of death. These are all enormous problems, and we approach them with a small mind; we try to resolve them with a mind that is very limited. Though it has extraordinary capacities and is capable of invention, of subtle, cunning thought, the mind is still petty. It may be able to quote Marx, or the Gita, or some other religious book, but it is still a small mind, and a small mind confronted with a complex problem can only translate that problem in terms of itself, and therefore the problem, the misery increases. So the question is: Can the mind that is small, petty, be transformed into something which is not bound by its own limitations?
“If time travel is possible, where are the tourists from the future?”
Source: A Brief History of Time
Ann-Margret shares her story about life and love https://lifestories.productions/iblog/ann-margret-shares-her-story-about-life-and-love/ (April 19, 2020)
“All thoughts that mould the age begin
Deep down within the primitive soul.”
An Incident in a Railroad Car
“If you quit ONCE it becomes a habit. Never quit!!!”
“The beauty of love.
The love of beauty.
The greener you are, the wiser you will be.”
“Don't gain the world and lose your soul
Wisdom is better than silver and gold.”
Zion Train
Uprising (1979)
“The problem is people are being hated when they are real, and are being loved when they are fake.”
“Ev'rything's gonna be alright
So, no woman, no cry.”
Disputed, No Woman, No Cry, from the album Natty Dread (1974)
“One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.”
Variant: One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
“Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts; put your vision to reality.”
Song lyrics
Context: Life is one big road with lots of signs,
So when you riding through the ruts,
Don't you complicate your mind
Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy
Don't bury your thoughts; put your vision to reality
"Wake Up and Live!” on Survival (1979)
“The people who were trying to make this world worse are not taking the day off. Why should I?”
Response, after being asked why he went ahead and performed in the concert "Smile Jamaica", two days after he, his wife and manager were wounded inside his home after an assault by unknown gunmen, thought to be politically motivated (5 December 1976), as quoted in Bob Marley The Father of Music (2010) by Jean-Pierre Hombasch, p. 5
Variant: The people that are trying to make the world worse never take a day off, why should I?
