| J. Krishnamurti Online |
| We have become second-hand human beings, quoting and following others. Psychologists, philosophers, gurus and saints have told us what to do and think. We never wipe the slate clean so that our brains are fresh. We never read the story of ourselves. The story of ourselves is the story of the rest of mankind. We never read that book. You cannot possibly learn sitting at the feet of another, nor can you follow another, but you have to observe the extraordinary content of consciousness, what man is, why he behaves in this unreasonable way, without a sense of beauty, love or compassion.
Public Talk 4 in Bombay (Mumbai), 31 January 1982 |