Being Nothing...

“Questioner: If I have no image of myself, then I am nothing.

Krishnamurti: But are you anything anyhow?

Please don't laugh, this is much too serious.

Are you anything in yourself? Strip yourself of your name, title, money, position, your little capacity to write a book and be flattered and what are you?

So, why not realize and be that?

You see, we have an image of what it is to be nothing, and we don't like that image; but the actual fact of being nothing, when you have no image, may be entirely different. And it is entirely different.

It is not a state that can be realized in terms of being nothing or of being something.

It is entirely different when there is no image of yourself. And to have no image of yourself demands tremendous attention, tremendous seriousness. It is only the attentive, the serious, that live, not the people who have images of themselves.”


- Krishnamurti