When thought is quiet...

"Now, when you have finished with all this, there is the central problem which is: is there something which is not describable, because if you describe it, it is not the described; is there something which is not of time, which is without borders as space, which has immense space? I do not know if you have ever watched birds sitting on a telephone wire; if you have watched it, you will see that each bird has space very carefully, because when your space is limited, you become vicious, which is what is happening in the urban... in the cities.
Where there is no space you become violent, you want to break things —you know, you want space. The mind cannot... thought cannot give that space. Only when thought is quiet, there is this space that has no frontier. And it is only the completely silent mind that knows, that is aware—not 'knows'—that is aware if there is or if there is not something that is beyond all measurement. And that is the only thing that is sacred, not the images, the rituals, the saviors, the gurus, their visions, but that thing which the mind has come upon without asking, because in itself that mind is totally empty and therefore that which has emptiness, a new thing can take place."
J. Krishnamurti
Public Talk 4
Brockwood Park, England
Sept. 17, 1972

Jaap Sluijter
Executive Director