Freedom from the Known | J. Krishnamurti

Why it is included: Krishnamurti was a radical teacher who refused to be a guru.

He argued that all authority—religious, political, psychological—corrupts the truth.

To be truly free, we must step out of the stream of human conditioning.

We must stop looking at the world through the screen of our memories, judgments, and knowledge.

True wisdom cannot be "learned" from a book and repeated.

It must be a living, moment-to-moment discovery.

Krishnamurti challenges us to have the courage to stand alone, to reject the "known" (the past ways of being), and to look at the world with eyes that are completely innocent and fresh.