"Thought has created the problems which surround us and our brains are trained, educated, conditioned, to the solving of problems...It is essential that we understand the nature of our thinking and the nature of our reactions which arise from our thinking."
"From experience we acquire knowledge, from knowledge memory; the response of memory is thought, then from thought to action, from that action you learn more, so the cycle is repeated. That is the pattern of our life. That form of learning will never solve our problems because it is repetition."
"Suppose I have great sorrow for the death of someone with whom I have lived for many years. Then there is this sorrow which is the essence of isolation; we feel totally isolated, completely alone. Now, remain completely with that feeling, not verbalising it, not rationalising it, or escaping from it, or trying to transcend it - all of which is the movement that thought brings about. When there is that sorrow and thought does not enter into it at all - which means you are completely sorrow, not trying to overcome sorrow, but totally sorrow - then there is the disappearance of it. It is only when there is the fragmentation of thought that there is travail."
From J. Krishnamurti "The Network of Thought"
