Thought For Today 24 April 2022, J Krishnamurti

Intelligence means one who does not act in fragments. A businessman is something different in his office than at home. A scientist may go to the moon, invent, do the most extraordinary things with computers and so on, in their laboratory be very intelligent, but they are just like anybody else: nationalistic, competitive, ambitious. Most of us live in fragments, a fragmentary life. Each fragment has its own life, and therefore each fragment is in contradiction with the other. This contradiction is the very essence of stupidity. Therefore we can say that intelligence is not to function in fragments. Intelligence is to function totally – totally in business, totally as a politician, and so on. This means you have to take the totality of humanity, not just as a politician – the totality of a human mind which has lived for over two million years. If one can function that way, that is the highest form of intelligence.

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