| "How can one escape from the authority of oneself. The authority of oneself is knowledge, experience, isn't it. I have experienced - what? - joy. That's the authority. Look what has happened. I have experienced joy, which is in the past. The past then becomes the authority. You don't say, in the state of experiencing, 'I have experienced'. I don't know if you are following all this. Are we meeting each other? While we are looking at the sunset, the beauty of it, the colour of it, the joy of it, in that moment you say, 'I am experiencing great delight'. You don't say that. You only say it when it is over, and when you remembered it, and then tell somebody. So the authority of one's own experience is the dead authority of yesterday, therefore valueless. Right?
So to have no authority means to be free from yesterday - knowledge, experience - unless you go into this very, very deeply, this is all just words."
– J. Krishnamurti
Students Discussion 4 Paris, France - 22 April 1969
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