The Flight of The Eagle

Questioner: Sir, what do you want us people here in this world to do? Krishnamurti: Very simple, sir. I don't want anything. That's first. Second, live, live in the world. This world is so marvellously beautiful. It is our world, our earth to live upon, but we do not live, we are narrow, we are separate, we are anxious, we are frightened human beings, and therefore we do not live, we have no relationship, we are isolated, despairing human beings. We do not know what it means to live in that ecstatic, blissful sense. I say one can live that way only when one knows how to be free from all the stupidities of one's life. To be free from them is only possible in becoming aware of one's relationship, not only with human beings, but with ideas, with nature, with everything...

This book contains a selection of the talks and dialogues Krishnamurti held in 1969 in London, Amsterdam, Paris, and Saanen, Switzerland. They are remarkable for their simplicity of approach to complex human problems and clarity of presentation.

J. Krishnamurti (1895 - 1986) is regarded as one of the greatest philosophers and religious teachers of all time. For more than sixty years he travelled the world over, giving talks and holding dialogues, not as a guru but as a friend. His teachings are not based on book knowledge and theories, and therefore they communicate directly to anyone seeking answers to the present world crisis as well as to the eternal problems of human existence.

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