The Collected Works of J.Krishnamurti - Volume XIV 1963-1964: The New Mind

In these Talks, given in India and Saanen, Krishnamurti speaks to the necessity for a new way of looking, thinking and being in the world. What is the effect or value of an individual changing? How will that transform the whole current of human existence? What can an individual do?…there is no such thing as an individual consciousness; there is only consciousness of which we are a part. You might segregate yourself and build a wall of a particular space called the ‘me’. But that ‘me’ is related to the whole, that ‘me’ is not separate. And in transforming that particular section, that particular part, we will affect the whole of consciousness. And I think this is very important to realize: that we are not talking about individual salvation or individual reformation, but about being aware of the particular in relation to, the total. Then out of that realization comes action which will affect the whole.