"Are you an individual? You have a different body, a different name, a
bank account, maybe a disease – but are you an individual? You are
conditioned like everybody else, and within that limited area that you
call the individual, everything arises: your miseries, despairs,
jealousies, fears. Everything comes from that limited, narrow,
fragmentary existence that we are so proud of, with our individual souls
and individual wills. With this messy, little stuff, we want to proceed
to uncover God, truth, love and all the rest of it. You cannot. All you
can do, if you are attentive, is to be aware of your fragment and the
struggles of the fragment. The fragment can never become the whole. Do
what you will, the spoke can never become the wheel. So one has to find
out, inquire into this whole problem of the separative, narrow, little
existence we call the individual" (Krishnamurti, from a public talk in 1964).
Another licencing infringement for this pic of the RADAR station of top of Great Dun Fell, near Cross Fell, North Pennines...
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