Keep far away. You should never be here too much, be so far away that they can’t find you, they can’t get at you to shape, to mould. For they are waiting for you, at every corner, in every house to shape you, to mould you, to tear you to pieces and then put you together in their own image. Their gods, the little ones and the big ones, are the images of themselves, carved by their own mind or by their own hands. They are waiting for you, the churchman and the communist, the believer and the non believer, for they are both the same they think they are different but they are not for they both brainwash you, till you are of them, till you repeat their words, till you worship their saints, the ancient and the recent they have armies for their gods and for their countries and they are experts in killing. Keep far away but they are waiting for you, the educator and the businessman one trains you for the others to conform to the demands of their society, which is a deadly thing. They will make you into a scientist, into an engineer, into an expert of almost anything from cooking to architecture to philosophy. Keep far, far away, they are waiting for you, the politician and the reformer, the one drags you down into the gutter and then the other reforms you, they juggle with words and you will be lost in their wilderness. But besides all these, there are hoards of others to tell you what to do and what not to do, keep away from all of them, so far away that you cannot find yourself or any other. You too would like to play with all of them who are waiting for you but then the play becomes so complicated and entertaining that you will be lost. Don’t let them find you, don’t come into contact with them too closely. You should never be here too much, be so far away that even you cannot find yourself. ~ J Krishnamurti, Notebook
Posted on: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 12:22:35 +0000
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