To Go Beyond and Discover

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Art by Rudy Bagozzi

A man who lives never asks what is living and he has no theories about living. It is only the half-alive who talk about the purpose of life.
—Krishnamurti

We all talk of God: In every religion, 
in every church and temple that 
word is used, but always 
in the image of the 
known. 

It is only the very, very few 
who leave all the churches, 
the temples, the books, 
who go beyond and
 discover...

If I really want to find out 
what is on the top of the mountain 
and beyond, I must go to it. 

It is no good my sitting here speculating, 
building temples, churches, and 
getting excited about them. 

What I have to do is to 
stand up, 
walk, 
struggle, 
push, 
get there, 
and find out; 
but as most of us are 
unwilling to do that, 
we are satisfied to sit here 
and speculate about something 
that we do not know. 

And I say such speculation 
is a hindrance, it is a 
deterioration of the mind, 
it has no value at all; it only 
brings more confusion, 
more sorrow to man.

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You can find this passage in Jiddu Krishnamurti’s great book — On God