We choose our leaders, political or spiritual, out of our own confusion, and so they also are confused.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiWhen I said that I am the Buddha, the Christ, the Lord Maitreya, and more, it was not a question of superiority or inferiority. I added that phrase 'and more' very carefully, because I knew that people had a very limited understanding of the Buddha and the Christ, and hence if I said: 'I am the Christ, the Buddha', they would limit that Reality to their own conceptions of the Buddha or the Christ, and Life has no limit.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiThere are two kinds of freedom: one is the freedom from something, which is a reaction; and the other is not a reaction, it is "being free."
Jiddu KrishnamurtiDo you know your particular fears? And what do you usually do with them? You run away from them, don't you, or invent ideas and images to cover them? But to run away from fear is only to increase it.
Jiddu Krishnamurti