This Light in Oneself
A new consciousness and a totally new morality are
necessary to bring about a radical change in the present
culture and social structure. This is obvious, yet the
Left and the Right and the revolutionary seem to
disregard it. Any dogma, any formula, any ideology is
part of the old consciousness; they are the fabrications
of thought whose activity is fragmentation - the Left,
the Right, the centre. This activity will inevitably lead
to bloodshed of the Right or of the Left or to
totalitarianism. This is what is going on around us. One
sees the necessity of social, economic, and moral
change, but the response is from the old consciousness,
thought being the principal actor. The mess, the
confusion, and the misery that human beings have got
into are within the area of the old consciousness, and
without changing that profoundly, every human activity
- political,economic or religious - will only bring us to
the destruction of each other and of the earth. This is so
obvious to the sane.
J. Krishnamurti
"This Light in Oneself"
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