“Circumstances take their cue from your beliefs, so if your belief system says that your beliefs should take their cue from your circumstances, then you are stuck in an infinite reflection loop that does not change very much; your world won’t budge.” ~ Bentinho Massaro

“Life is made already. There is nothing to be done. Nothing need be done to make a life into fruit–delicious, drippy fruit. … Eat it. Let it drip all over you. You cannot touch anything that it does not get all over. You cannot open your mouth that it does not pour out.” ~ Jan Frazier

“Fearlessness is a flimsy commodity if it depends upon a known outcome.” ~ Jan Frazier

“Fear comes into being when I desire a particular pattern.  To live without fear means to live without a particular pattern.”  Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Fear exists so long as there is an accumulation of the known, which creates the fear of losing.  Therefore fear of the unknown is really fear of losing the accumulated known.”  Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior.  You are beneath the thinker.  You are the stillness beneath the mental noise.  You are the love and joy beneath the pain.”  Eckhart Tolle

“Any movement of the mind, positive or negative, is an experience which actually strengthens the ‘me’.  Is it possible for the mind not to recognize?  That can only take place when there is complete silence, but not the silence which is an experience of the self and which therefore strengthens the self.”  Jiddu Krishnamurti

“If you don’t form an image now, the past images have no place.”  Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Don’t depend on anything.  It doesn’t mean just don’t depend on the postman, it means also inwardly don’t depend.”  Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Even the company of the good doesn’t teach me what is good and what is false, or true.  I have to see it.”  Jiddu Krishnamurti