conclusionJiddu Krishnamurti:
Another and still greater disaster is approaching dangerously close and most of us are doing nothing whatever about it. We go on day after day exactly as before; we do not want to strip away all our false values and begin anew. We want to do patchwork reform which only leads to problems of still further reform. But the building is crumbling, the walls are giving way, and fire is destroying it. We must leave the building and start on new ground, with different foundations, different values. We cannot discard technical knowledge, but we can become inwardly aware of our ugliness, of our ruthlessness, of our deceptions and dishonesty, our utter lack of love. Only by intelligently freeing ourselves from the spirit of nationalism, from envy and the thirst for power, can a new social order be established. Peace is not to be achieved by patchwork reform nor by a mere rearrangement of old ideas and superstitions. There can be peace only when we understand what lies beyond the superficial and thereby stop this wave of destruction which has been unleashed by our own aggressiveness and fears; and only then will there be hope for our children and salvation for the world.
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"Education and World Peace" is chapter four of J. Krishnamurti’s book Education and the Significance of Life published in New York in 1953 by Harper and Row.
Another and still greater disaster is approaching dangerously close and most of us are doing nothing whatever about it. We go on day after day exactly as before; we do not want to strip away all our false values and begin anew. We want to do patchwork reform which only leads to problems of still further reform. But the building is crumbling, the walls are giving way, and fire is destroying it. We must leave the building and start on new ground, with different foundations, different values. We cannot discard technical knowledge, but we can become inwardly aware of our ugliness, of our ruthlessness, of our deceptions and dishonesty, our utter lack of love. Only by intelligently freeing ourselves from the spirit of nationalism, from envy and the thirst for power, can a new social order be established. Peace is not to be achieved by patchwork reform nor by a mere rearrangement of old ideas and superstitions. There can be peace only when we understand what lies beyond the superficial and thereby stop this wave of destruction which has been unleashed by our own aggressiveness and fears; and only then will there be hope for our children and salvation for the world.
fini
"Education and World Peace" is chapter four of J. Krishnamurti’s book Education and the Significance of Life published in New York in 1953 by Harper and Row.
