Jiddu Krishnamurti - The First and Last Freedom (1954)

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The transformation of the world is brought about by the transformation of oneself.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
The problem that confronts most of us is whether the individual is merely the instrument of society or the end of society. Are you and I as individuals to be used, directed, educated, controlled, shaped to a certain pattern by society and government; or does society, the State, exist for the individual? Is the individual the end of society; or is he merely a puppet to be taught, exploited, butchered as an instrument of war? That is the problem that is confronting most of us. That is the problem of the world; whether the individual is a mere instrument of society, a plaything of influences to be moulded; or whether society exists for the individual.

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Transformation can only take place immediately; the revolution is now, not tomorrow.

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Fear exists in the process of accumulation and belief in something is part of the accumulative process.

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The real is near, you do not have to seek it; and a man who seeks truth will never find it. 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.

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A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations is really an uncreative mind.

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The fundamental factor of self-deception is this constant desire to be something in this world and in the world hereafter.

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