Question: I want to help people, serve them. What is the best way?
Krishnamurti:
The best way is to begin to understand yourself and change yourself. In
this desire to help another, to serve another, there is hidden pride,
conceit. If you love you serve. The clamour to help is born of vanity.
If you want to help another, you must know yourself for you are the
other. Outwardly we may be different—yellow, black, brown, or white—but
we are all driven by craving, by fear, by greed, or by ambition;
inwardly we are very much alike. Without self-knowledge, how can you
have knowledge of another’s needs? Without understanding yourself, you
cannot understand another, serve another. Without self-knowledge you
are acting in ignorance, and so creating sorrow…
J. Krishnamurti/The Collected Works vol III, p 219
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