Does the search for experience lead to reality?

Experience nearly always forms a hardened centre in

the mind, as the self, which is a deteriorating factor.

Most of us are seeking experience. We may be tired of 

the worldly experiences of fame, notoriety, wealth, 

sex, and so on, but we all want greater, wider 

experience of some kind, especially those of us who 

are attempting to reach a so-called spiritual state. 

Being tired of worldly things, we want a more 

extensive, a wider, deeper experience; and to arrive 

at such an experience, we suppress, we control, we 

dominate ourselves, hoping thereby to achieve a full 

realization of God, or what you will. 

We think the pursuit of experience is the right way of 

life in order to attain greater vision, and I question 

whether that is so. 

Does this search for experience, 

which is really a demand for greater, fuller sensation, 

lead to reality? Or is it a factor which cripples the 

mind? - J KRISHNAMURTY

The Collected Works, Vol. X",16,Choiceless Awareness