Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organized; nor should any organization be formed to lead or to coerce people along any particular path. If you first understand that, then you will see how impossible it is to organize a belief.
Interpretation
Truth is inherently limitless and cannot be confined or organized into a belief system.
In this quote, Jiddu Krishnamurti expresses the idea that truth transcends any frameworks or organized beliefs that people may try to impose. He suggests that truth cannot be grasped through structured paths or coercive means, and true understanding comes from recognizing the infinite nature of truth rather than trying to fit it into predefined categories or beliefs. This emphasizes the importance of personal exploration and understanding over adhering to rigid doctrines.
In practice
In a philosophical debate about the nature of truth and belief systems.
The following of authority is the denial of intelligence. [It] may help us temporarily to cover up our difficulties and problems; but to avoid a problem is only to intensify it, and in the process, self-knowledge and freedom are abandoned.
In seeking comfort, we generally find a quiet corner in life where there is a minimum of conflict, and then we are afraid to step out of that seclusion.
If you listen through the screen of your desires, then you obviously listen to your own voice; you are listening to your own desires.
If you have this extraordinary thing going in your life, then it is everything; then you become the teacher, the disciple, the neighbour, the beauty of the cloud - you are all that, and that is love.
Meditation is one of the greatest arts in life - perhaps the greatest, and one cannot possibly learn it from anybody, that is the beauty of it.
All of us have been trained by education and environment to seek personal gain and security and to fight for ourselves. Though we cover it over with pleasant phrases, we have been educated for various professions within a system which is based on exploitation and acquisitive fear.
People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage.
Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liberty.
Few can believe that suffering, especially by others, is in vain. Anything that is disagreeable must surely have beneficial economic effects.
I was not wounded in any part of my body, but I had never experienced such intense pain, such a ripping of the nerves, such an ache of the heart.
When you forcefully suppress religious nationalism, you radicalize it.
To recommend a monarchy on account of the prosperity it gives the provinces seems to me like recommending that a man should have liberty to treat his children as slaves, if at the same time he treats his slaves with reasonable consideration.
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