The World Cannot Be Transformed Till You Are.
[...] "As almost everyone craves to be on top, we have built a society of violence, conflict and enmity.
“But how is one to eradicate all this?”
By not being ambitious, greedy for power, for name, for position; by being what you are, simple and a nobody. Negative thinking is the highest form of intelligence.
“But the cruelty and violence of the world cannot be stopped by my individual effort. And would it not take infinite time for all individuals to change?”
The other is you.
This question springs from the desire to avoid your own immediate transformation, does it not?
You are saying, in effect, “What is the good of my changing if everyone else does not change?” One must begin near to go far. But you really do not want to change; you want things to go on as they are, especially if you are on top, and so you say it will take infinite time to transform the world through individual transformation.
The world is you; you are the problem; the problem is not separate from you; the world is the projection of yourself.
The world cannot be transformed till you are.
Happiness is in transformation and not in acquisition.
J. Krishnamurti
Series II - Chapter 16 - ‘The Pursuit Of Power’
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