Jiddu Krishnamurti - Notebook

 

Power is derived from asceticism, from action, from position,from virtue, from domination and so on. 

All such forms of power are evil. It corrupts and perverts. 

The use of money, talent,cleverness to gain power or deriving power from any use of these is evil.  
But there is a power which is in no way related to that power which is evil. 

This power is not to be bought through sacrifice, virtue, good works and beliefs, nor is it to be bought through worship, prayers and self-denying or self-destructive meditations.
All effort to become or to be must wholly, naturally, cease. 

Only then that power which is not evil, can be. 

Jiddu Krishnamurti -  Notebook