So thought seeking security all the time, physical as well as psychological, conscious or unconscious, has established for itself various beliefs, dogmas, superstitions, neurotic activities, and is caught in that, it has become a habit. Now, can one break that habit without effort, because the moment you make an effort you are back again, there is contradiction in that, there is a duality in that - the one that sees that it must be broken and makes an effort, but one who sees it must be broken is the thinker, the thinker is thought - there is no thinker without thought. To have an insight into that now, instantly, is to break it, is to break the chain of habit, to be aware of all this, the whole movement of thought. And one can be aware of it only when you don't condemn it, then you observe. And to observe without the observer, because the observer is the entity who says, 'This I will keep, this I won't keep, this is right, this is wrong, this should be, this should not be' - he is always comparing. The observer is the entity that measures. ⁠

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J. Krishnamurti⁠

Public Talk 2 Brockwood Park, England - 10 September 1972⁠

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