Daily Inspiration Quote by Jiddu Krishnamurti

Apocalypse, in Krishnamurti’s hands, isn’t a spectacle; it’s a psychological mechanics lesson. “The end is the beginning of all things” flips the usual self-help logic of linear progress. He’s pointing at the moment a pattern actually breaks: not when you “improve,” but when something in you finishes, cleanly and without nostalgia. For Krishnamurti, that ending is not a loss to be patched up with meaning; it’s the only opening through which something unconditioned can enter.

“Suppressed and hidden” signals his central enemy: the accumulated, half-conscious residue of conditioning - fear, desire, memory, identity. The line implies that what we call “self” is less a stable essence than a storage unit of unresolved pressures. The “awaiting” is important too: these forces aren’t dead; they’re poised, staged, ready to take over the next thought, the next relationship, the next crisis.

Then he lands the knife: release comes “through the rhythm of pain and pleasure.” Krishnamurti isn’t romanticizing suffering; he’s exposing our addiction to oscillation. We chase pleasure, recoil from pain, and that pendulum becomes a metronome for the ego - a reliable beat that keeps the old story moving. The subtext is severe: as long as you’re organized around that rhythm, you’re not free, you’re merely alternating.

Context matters. Krishnamurti spent a lifetime rejecting gurus, including the one the Theosophists tried to make of him. This reads like a distillation of that refusal: liberation isn’t bestowed; it erupts when the psyche stops bargaining with its own discomfort and finally lets an ending end.