To see, you must be free from all authority, tradition, fear, and thought with its cunning words. Truth is not in some far distant place; it is in the looking at what is. To see oneself as one is - in that awareness into which choice does not enter - is the beginning and end of all search.

There is no way to the other shore. There is no action, no behaviour, no prescription that will open the door to the other. It is not an evolutionary process; it is not the end of a discipline; it cannot be bought or given or invited. If this is clear, if the mind has forgotten itself and no longer says - the other bank or this bank - if the mind has stopped groping and searching, if there is total emptiness and space in the mind itself - then and only then is it there.

This is an entry from Krishnamurti's Notebook made on November 3rd 1961 in Rishi Valley, India

Do you want your belief to be strengthened or do you want actually to see reality - not experience it, but actually see it with a mind and heart that are highly attentive and clear? Belief is one thing and seeing is another. Belief leads to darkness, as faith does. 

The sadness of Life is this - the emptiness that we try to fill with every conceivable trick of the mind. But that emptiness remains. Its sadness is the vain effort to possess.

Never confuse the word with the thing it describes. The word is never the real, and we are easily carried away when we come to the next stage of awareness where it becomes personal and we get emotional through the word.

Chapter 4 from the book "This Matter of Culture", by J. Krishnamurti and D. Rajagopal, Krishnamurti Foundation India, 1992. "This Matter of Culture" consists of Krishnamurti's talks and discussions with the students, parents, and teachers of the schools he founded in India.

The following statement, which contains the essence of the teaching, was written by Krishnamurti himself on October 21, 1980