Jiddu Krishnamurti in: Freedom from the Known, Random House, 1 July 2010, p. 5

We are strange mixture of hate, fear, and gentleness; we are both violence and peace. There has been outward progress from the bullock cart to the jet plane but psychologically the individual has not changed at all and the structure of society through the world has been created by individuals.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti on Bullock cart

What It Means

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Jiddu Krishnamurti

About Jiddu Krishnamurti

Jiddu Krishnamurti (11 May 1895 – 17 February 1986) was a spiritual teacher, public speaker, and writer, on psychological, sociological, and spiritual subjects.