So what will make you change? Please ask yourself, burn with that question, because we have fallen into habit. Your house is burning, and apparently you do not pay attention. So, if you don’t change, society remains as it is. And clever people are coming along saying that society must change, we need a new structure and the structure then becomes more important than man, as all revolutions have shown.
After considering all this, is there a learning, is there an awakening of intelligence, is there a sense of order in our lives? Or are we going back to the same routine? If you have that intelligence, that goodness, that sense of great love, then you will create a marvellous new society where we can all live happily. It’s our earth — not Indian earth, or English earth, Russian earth; it’s our earth where we can live happily, intelligently, not at each others’ throats. So, please give your heart and mind to find out why you don’t change — even in little things. Please pay attention to your own life. You have extraordinary capacities. It is all waiting for you to open the door.
J. Krishnamurti
Chennai 3rd Public Talk, December 29, 1979
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This is beautiful Sunshine. It’s got my hand on the door knob.
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I think you have to burn your own house down to make yourself change but then again I’m a bit of a drama queen though I will try to focus on just opening the door even if its warm and loving inside