“You are not ready to accept the fact that you have to give up. A complete and total surrender. It is a state of hopelessness which says that there is no way out. Any movement in any direction, on any dimension, at any level, is taking you away from yourself.” – UG Krishnamurti This is…
One of my favorite Eastern thinkers is UG Krishnamurti. He is not related to Jiddu Krishnamurti though in some ways they address the same sort of topics. UG came up on my radar after reading many of Jiddu’s books. UG came to what appears to be a form of enlightenment he calls the “Natural State”…
Jiddu Krishnamurti ideas have influenced me from the first time I picked up one of his books in the mid-1990s. He had a unique and rather surreal childhood, especially among those in spiritual circles. Born in 1895 in a small village in Madanapalle, India, Krishnamurti’s early years were marked by hardship and tragedy. He lost…
There are really few people who seem to have the state of mind that I have stumbled into. U. G. Krishnamurti is one person who undoubtedly has near exactly (as far as I can tell) the same state that is here. It was at the age of 49 when UG Krishnamurti realized it was the…