| "So by looking and giving freedom to fear there is an ending of fear. One hopes that by listening to all this, this morning, listening, you know, actually giving your attention, not to words, not to arguments, not to the illogicality, or to the logical sequence, and so on and so on - but actually listening to see the truth of it, and if you saw the truth of this, what is being said, then as you leave this structure, this building or this tent, whatever it's called, you will be out of fear.
You know this world is ridden by fear. That's one of the most monstrous problems, that each one of us has: fear of being discovered, fear of exposing oneself, fear that what you have said years ago might be again repeated, and you are nervous, you lie. You know, the extraordinary nature of fear, and when one lives in fear one lives in darkness. It's a dreadful thing. One is aware of it, one doesn't know what to do with it, so one turns to analysts, psycho-analysts, you know, all that business. The fear of dreams, the fear of life, the fear of death! Talking of dreams, we have always accepted as usual the habit that one must have dreams, that one must dream, it is inevitable: and the analysts and the psychologists have said unless you dream you'll go mad. That is what is stated. The 'impossible' is not to dream, at all. Do listen to this. Not to dream at all. That is for most people an impossibility. And one never says, why should I dream? What's the point of dreaming? Not what dreams are and how they are to be interpreted, which becomes too complicated and really has very little meaning - but to find out if it is at all possible not to dream, so that when you do sleep you sleep with complete fullness, with complete rest, so that the mind wakes up the next morning fresh, without going through all the battle. I say it is possible."
– J. Krishnamurti
Public Talk 7 Saanen, Switzerland - 21 July 1968 | 