One
has an idea, a symbol of oneself, an image of oneself, what one
should be, what one is, or what one should not be. Why does one
create an image about oneself? Because one has never studied what one
is, actually. We think we should be this or that: the ideal, the
hero, the example. What awakens anger is that our ideal, the idea we
have of ourselves, is attacked. And our idea about ourselves is our
escape from the fact of what we are. But when you are observing the
actual fact of what you are, no one can hurt you. Then, if one is a
liar and is told that one is a liar, it does not mean that one is
hurt: it is a fact. But when you are pretending you are not a liar
and are told that you are, then you get angry, violent. So we are
always living in an ideational world, a world of myth, and never in
the world of actuality. To observe what is, to see it, actually be
familiar with it, there must be no judgment, no evaluation, no
opinion, no fear.
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J Krishnamurti: The Collected Works, Vol. XII, 246, Choiceless
Awareness
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