Thought For Today 10 Janurary 2023, J Krishnamurti

A human being is an individual only when there is no fragmentation in himself. This means he is undivided in himself. Only then can he be called an individual. Most so-called individuals are broken-up human beings; they are contradictory in themselves, torn by different desires, ambitions, pursuits, appetites. These divisions in ourselves are contradictory and bring about conflict in ourselves. We want to escape from conflict through religion or football or various entertainments. One fragment, the observer, assumes authority as the censor, the analyser, the one who decides what is right and wrong, and tries to enforce this, controlling the other fragments. So there is always a division between the observer and the observed which are the various other fragments. Hence there is always conflict between the observer and the thing observed. This conflict brings a great deal of contradiction and sorrow inwardly, and also outwardly as war.

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