J Krishnamurti Quotes on Fear and Inspired Quintains

 

J Krishnamurti Quotes on Fear

• Truth lies in directly observing fear without the "observer" - the thinker
• Fear is one of the greatest problems in life. A mind that is caught in fear lives in confusion and conflict, and therefore must be violent, distorted and aggressive.
• We are all afraid of something; there is no fear in abstraction, it is always in relation to something.
• Escape, entertainment and courage are all forms of resistance to the actual fact of fear.
• Thought breeds fear as well as pleasure; they are both matters of time.
• As long as we are running away from fear, we do not look at it. The moment we stop and look at fear, it begins to dissolve.
• You are fear; you are not separate from it. The experiencer of fear is not an observer of it; it is fear itself, the very instrument of fear.
• The desire not to be disturbed makes us avoid ‘what is’ and fear what might be. Fear is the ignorance of ‘what is’, and our life is spent in a constant state of fear.
• There can be freedom from fear only when there is self-knowledge. Self-knowledge is the beginning of wisdom, which is the ending of fear.

Inspired Quintains

A fellow named Jiddu, so wise,
Said fear is a cleverly built guise.
We crave to be sure,
Of joy to endure,
And "what is" is just not a prize.

A mind in a tizzy, quite taut,
Brews fear from the thoughts it has caught.
Since thoughts live inside,
You can't really hide,
You're the fear that your own self has wrought.

There once was someone full of dread,
Whose fear with amusements was fed.
The more it would flee,
The bigger 'twould be,
Till knowing its source, it was dead.

A mind full of worries and dread,
Sees monsters it makes in its head.
But fear, face to face,
Finds a peaceful space,
When "thinker" is quiet instead