Jiddu Krishnamurti - Authority
Having realized that we can depend on no outside authority in
bringing about a total revolution within the structure of our own
psyche, there is the immensely greater difficulty of rejecting our own
inward authority, the authority of our own particular little experiences
and accumulated opinions, knowledge, ideas and ideals. You had an
experience yesterday which taught you something and what it taught you
becomes a new authority - and that authority of yesterday is as
destructive as the authority of a thousand years. To understand
ourselves needs no authority either of yesterday or of a thousand years
because we are living things, always moving, flowing, never resting.
When we look at ourselves with the dead authority of yesterday, we will
fail to understand the living movement and the beauty and quality of
that movement.
To be free of all authority, of your own and that of another, is to
die to everything of yesterday, so that your mind is always fresh,
always young, innocent, full of vigour and passion. It is only in that
state that one learns and observes. And for this a great deal of
awareness is required, actual awareness of what is going on inside
yourself, without correcting it or telling it what it should or should
not be, because the moment you correct it you have established another
authority, a censor.
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