Krishnamurti...

Krishnamurti on Teachers and Organizations -excerpts taken from Total Freedom


"When you follow someone, you cease to follow truth."


"You are accustomed to authority, or to the atmosphere of authority, which you think will lead you to spirituality. You think and hope that another can, by his extraordinary powers - a miracle - transport you to this realm of eternal freedom, which is Happiness."


"Your belief has not transformed you, but only complicated you ---because you are not willing to face things as they are. You want to have your own gods - new gods instead of the old, new religions instead of the old, new forms instead of the old - all equally valueless, all barriers,all limitations, all crutches. "

"You are all depending on your spirituality on someone else, for your happiness on someone else, for your enlightenment on someone else, and when I say all these things are unnecessary, when I say that you must put them all away and look within yourselves for the enlightenment, for the glory, for the purification, and for the incorruptibility of self, not one of you is willing to do it - there may be a few, but very very few. "


"Organizations cannot make you free. No man from outside can make you free: nor can organized worship, nor the immolation of yourselves for a cause, make you free; nor can forming yourselves into an organization, nor throwing yourselves into works, make you free."


"Again you have the idea that certain people hold the key to the Kingdom of Happiness. No one holds it. No one has the authority to hold that key. That key is YOUR OWN SELF, and in the development and the purification and in the incorruptibility of that self alone is the Kingdom of Eternity."