U.G. Krishnamurti’s full name is Uppaluri Gopala Krishnamurti known as U. G. Krishnamurti, or just U.G. was an Indian speaker who questioned the state of enlightenment. Although many considered him an “enlightened” person, U.G. often referred to his state of being as the “natural state”. These persuasive U G Krishnamurti quotes will transform you.
Best U G Krishnamurti Quotes
- “All I can guarantee you is that as long as you are searching for happiness, you will remain unhappy.” – U.G. Krishnamurti
- “The plain fact is that if you don’t have a problem, you create one. If you don’t have a problem you don’t feel that you are living.” – U.G. Krishnamurti
- “We are not created for any grander purpose than the ants that are there or the flies that are hovering around us or the mosquitoes that are sucking our blood.” – U.G. Krishnamurti
- “Thought can never capture the movement of life, it is much too slow.” – U.G. Krishnamurti
- “It would be more interesting to learn from children than try to teach them how to behave, how to live and how to function.” – U.G. Krishnamurti
- “Nature is busy creating absolutely unique individuals, whereas culture has invented a single mold to which all must conform. It is grotesque.” – U.G. Krishnamurti
- “There is no power outside of man. Man has created God out of fear. So the problem is fear and not God.” – U.G. Krishnamurti
- “*Only if you reject all the other paths can you discover your own path.” – U.G. Krishnamurti
- “You think when you don’t want to do anything. Thinking is a poor alternative to acting. Your thinking is consuming all your energy. Act, don’t think!” – U.G. Krishnamurti
- “Everything you stand for, believe in, experience, and aspire to is the result of thought. And thought is destructive because it is nothing more than a protective mechanism, programmed to protect its own interests at all costs.” – U.G. Krishnamurti
- “Your constant utilization of thought to give continuity to your separate self is you. There is nothing there inside you other than that.” – U.G. Krishnamurti
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“Don’t follow me, I’m lost.” – U.G. Krishnamurti
- “The body is not interested in anything you are interested in. And that is the battle that is going on all the time.” – U.G. Krishnamurti
- “There is no such thing as truth. The only thing that is actually there is your ‘logically’ ascertained premise, which you call truth.” – U.G. Krishnamurti
- “We are using the neurons, our identity, to constantly maintain our identity. Whether you are awake, asleep, or dreaming, this process is carried on. But, it is wearing you out. That is why I say the tragedy that is facing mankind is not AIDS or cancer, but Alzthiemer’s disease.” – U.G. Krishnamurti
- “Food, clothing, and shelter — these are the basic needs. Beyond that, if you want anything, it is the beginning of self-deception.” – U.G. Krishnamurti
- “Your situation and prospects only seem hopeless because you have ideas of hope. Knock off that hope and the crippling feelings of helplessness go with it.” – U.G. Krishnamurti
- “We don’t want to be free from fear. All that we want to do is to play games with it and talk about freeing ourselves from fear.” – U.G. Krishnamurti
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“There is no need to change this world at all; and there is no need to change yourself either.” – U.G. Krishnamurti
- “I am not anti-rational, just unrational. You may infer a rational meaning in what I say or do, but it is your doing, not mine.” – U.G. Krishnamurti
- “The fact is that we don’t want to be free. What is responsible for our problems is the fear of losing what we have and what we know.” – U.G. Krishnamurti
- “Yes! is the thing that blows the whole structure apart.” – U.G. Krishnamurti
- “You cannot experience the death of anybody” – U.G. Krishnamurti
- “Life has to be described in pure and simple physical and physiological terms. It must be demystified and depsychologised” – U.G. Krishnamurti
- “The questioner has to come to an end. It is the questioner that creates the answer, and the questioner comes into being from the answer, otherwise, there is no questioner.” – U.G. Krishnamurti
