It took me a while to finally read Krishnamurti. If you’re allergic to gurus but still ask big questions, he’s basically your guy. 11 quotes from Freedom from the Known: 1. “Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.”​ 2. “Fear is one of the greatest problems in life. A mind that is caught in fear lives in confusion, in conflict, and therefore must be violent, distorted and aggressive.”​ 3. “Truth has no path, and that is the beauty of truth, it is living.”​ 4. “So you see that you cannot depend upon anybody. There is no guide, no teacher, no authority. There is only you.”​ 5. “Discipline must be without control, without suppression, without any form of fear… It is not discipline first and then freedom; freedom is at the very beginning, not at the end.”​ 6. “If one wants to see a thing very clearly, one’s mind must be very quiet, without all the prejudices, the chattering, the dialogue, the images, the pictures.”​ 7. “Attention is not the same thing as concentration. Concentration is exclusion; attention, which is total awareness, excludes nothing.”​ 8. “To understand ourselves needs no authority either of yesterday or of a thousand years because we are living things, always moving, flowing, never resting.”​ 9. “None of the agonies of suppression, nor the brutal discipline of conforming to a pattern has led to truth. To come upon truth the mind must be completely free, without a spot of distortion.”​ 10. “Most of us want to have our minds continually occupied so that we are prevented from seeing ourselves as we actually are. We are afraid to be empty.”​ 11. “Each of us has an image of what we think we are or what we should be, and that image… entirely prevents us from seeing ourselves as we actually are.”