What is the difference whether or not you find this freedom, this enlightenment? You will not be there to benefit from it. What possible good can thi… - U. G. Krishnamurti

When once we are freed from the goal [of solving problems], the question of whether it is a positive approach or a negative approach does not even arise.

Thought can never capture the movement of life, it is much too slow.

The problem is this: nature has assembled all these species on this planet. The human species is no more important than any other species on this planet. For some reason, man accorded himself a superior place in this scheme of things. He thinks that he is created for some grander purpose than, if I could give a crude example, the mosquito that is sucking his blood. What is responsible for this is the value system that we have created. And the value system has come out of the religious thinking of man. Man has created religion because it gives him a cover. This demand to fulfill himself, to seek something out there was made imperative because of this self-consciousness in you which occurred somewhere along the line of the evolutionary process. Man separated himself from the totality of nature.