Krishnamurti: Do you hate the poor? Do you hate the poor woman who is carrying the heavy basket on her head, walking all the way from Saraimohana to Banaras? Do you hate her with her torn clothes, dirty?
Krishnamurti: Why do we fight? You want something and I want the same thing, so we fight for it. You are clever, I am not clever, and we fight about it.
For several days we have been talking about fear and the various causes that bring about fear. I think one of the most difficult things, which most of us do not seem to apprehend, is the problem of habit. You know, most of us think that when we are young, we should cultivate good habits as opposed to bad habits, and we are told all the time what bad habits are and what good habits are; we are always told of habits that are worthwhile cultivating, and the habits which we should resist or put away.
Krishnamurti: It may be for many reasons. It may be due to ill-health, to not having slept properly, to not having the right kind of food. It may be purely a physical reaction, a nervous reaction, or it may be much deeper.
Krishnamurti: You see how the mind wants to be secure. It does not want to be disturbed. It wants forever and forever to be completely safe, and a mind that wants to be completely safe, to get over all difficulties forever and forever, is going to find a way.