All authority must come to an end

What we are going to do is to learn about ourselves—not according to the speaker, or to Freud, or to Jung, to some analyst or philosopher—but to learn actually what we are. If we learn about ourselves according to Freud we learn about Freud, not about ourselves. To learn about oneself, all authority must come to an end, all authority—whether it be the authority of the church or of the local priest, or the famous analyst, or of the greatest philosophers with their intellectual formulas, and so on. So the first thing that one has to realize when we become serious, demanding a total revolution within the structure of our own psyche, is that there is no authority of any kind. That is very difficult, for there is not only the outward authority, which one can easily reject, but there is inward authority: the inward authority of one’s own experience, of one’s own accumulated knowledge, of the opinions, ideas, ideals which guide one’s life and according to which one tries to live.

                     

J.Krishnamurti/Talks & Dialogues Saanen 1967, p 11

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[CARY ACE BOWERS JR]

ABSOLUTELY!! AS WELL AS ALL JUDICIAL AND GOVERNMENTAL AUTHORITY..YOU ARE EXACTLY RIGHT MY MAN..I AM DEFINITELY PUSHING THIS IDEA NOW THROUGH YOU TUBE..AUTHORITY IS A STALKING BEHAVIOR..PREDATORY..INTIMIDATING...EXTORTIVE..DECEITFUL..ECT...SEE ME YOU TUBE..HABAKKUP....