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Authority

You cannot depend upon anybody
You cannot depend upon anybody. There is no guide, no teacher, no authority. There is only you – your relationship with others and with the world.
—KRISHNAMURTI
From the book Freedom from the Known
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Can you and I, then, bring about in ourselves without any outside influence, without any persuasion, without any fear of punishment – can we bring about in the very essence of our being a total revolution, a psychological mutation, so that we are no longer brutal, violent, competitive, anxious, fearful, greedy, envious and all the rest of the manifestations of our nature which have built up the rotten society in which we live our daily lives?

Nobody can teach you about yourself
Nobody can teach you about yourself except yourself, so you have to be the guru and the disciple yourself, and learn from yourself. What you learn from another is not true.
—KRISHNAMURTI
Krishnamurti at Madras 1971, Talk 3
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It is one of the most arduous tasks to go into this. It is like taking a journey together. You know when you walk together you must be friends, you must love walking together, and that is one of the most difficult things. To learn about oneself is not to accumulate knowledge about oneself. To learn about myself I have to observe myself. If I learn about myself through the accumulation of knowledge, I don’t learn about myself.

To be free of all authority
To be free of all authority, your own and that of another, is to die to everything of yesterday, so that your mind is fresh, young, innocent, full of vigour and passion.
—KRISHNAMURTI
From the book Freedom from the Known
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So now we are going to investigate ourselves together – not one person explaining while you read, agreeing or disagreeing with him as you follow the words on the page, but taking a journey together, a journey of discovery into the most secret corners of our minds. And to take such a journey we must travel light; we cannot be burdened with opinions, prejudices and conclusions – all that old furniture we have collected for the last two thousand years and more. Forget all you know about yourself; forget all you have ever thought about yourself; we are going to start as if we knew nothing.

Leaders and followers
Leaders destroy the followers and followers destroy the leaders.
—KRISHNAMURTI
From the book Freedom from the Known
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Disorder creates authority
When one is in disorder, confusion, society becomes utterly chaotic; then that very disorder creates authority.
—KRISHNAMURTI
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