The Silence Between the Observer and the Observed

At the moment of tremendous joy,

there is no observer—

the heavens are filled,

you are part of it,

there is bliss.

This state takes place
when the mind sees

the falseness of attempts

to become, to achieve.

There is a state of timelessness

only when there is no observer.

~J. Krishnamurti

Bombay 1961, Talk 8

...the very attention you give to a problem

is the energy that solves that problem.
When you give your complete attention–

I mean with everything in you–
there is no observer at all.

There is only the state of attention

which is total energy,
and that total energy

is the highest form of intelligence.

Naturally that state of mind

must be completely silent

and that silence, that stillness,
comes when there is total attention,

not disciplined stillness.
That total silence in which there is

neither the observer nor the thing observed
is the highest form of a religious mind.

But what takes place in that state
cannot be put into words

because what is said in words

is not the fact.
To find out for yourself

you have to go through it.

~ J. Krishnamurti

excerpt from Freedom from the Known