Jiddu Krishnamurti
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And only such a mind can understand what truth is.
Truth is a pathless land.
Human beings cannot come to it through any organization, through any creed, through any dogma, priest or ritual.
Not through any philosophical knowledge or psychological technique.
One has to find it through the mirror of relationships.
through the understanding of the contents of one's own mind, through observation, and not through intellectual analysis or introspective dissection.
Humans have built in themselves images as a fence of security.
Religious, political, personal.
These manifest as symbols, ideas, beliefs.
The burden of these images dominates one's thinking.
our relationships and our daily life.
These images are the causes of our problems for they divide us from one another.
Our perception of life is shaped by the concepts already established in the mind
The content of our consciousness is our entire existence.
The individuality is the name, the form and the superficial culture that we acquire from tradition and environment.
Our uniqueness does not lie in the superficial.
but in complete freedom from the content of our consciousness which is common to all humanity so one is not an individual freedom is not a reaction freedom is not choice
It is our pretense that because we have choice, we are free.
Freedom is pure observation without direction, without fear of punishment and reward.
Freedom is without motive,