
Total Freedom: The Essential Krishnamurti

For total revolution the brain must forsake all its inward, secret mechanism of authority, envy, fear and so on.
Jiddu Krishnamurti • Krishnamurti's Notebook
When we look to a system for the transformation of society, we are merely evading the question, because a system cannot transform man; man always transforms the system, which history shows. Until I, in my relationship to you, understand myself, I am the cause of chaos, misery, destruction, fear, brutality. Understanding myself is not a matter of ti... See more
J. Krishnamurti • Total Freedom: The Essential Krishnamurti
Truth is in what is—and that is the beauty of it. But the moment you conceive it, the moment you seek it, you begin to struggle; and a man who struggles cannot understand. That is why we have to be still, observant, passively aware. We see that our living, our action, is always within the field of destruction, within the field of sorrow; like a wav... See more
J. Krishnamurti • Total Freedom: The Essential Krishnamurti
The individual is of first importance, not the system; and as long as the individual does not understand the total process of himself, no system, whether of the left or of the right, can bring order and peace to the world.