“I maintain that no organization can lead man to spirituality.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

1920s, Truth is a Pathless Land (1929)
Context: I do not want to belong to any organization of a spiritual kind, please understand this. I would make use of an organization which would take me to London, for example; this is quite a different kind of organization, merely mechanical, like the post or the telegraph. I would use a motor car or a steamship to travel, these are only physical mechanisms which have nothing whatever to do with spirituality. Again, I maintain that no organization can lead man to spirituality.

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Indian spiritual philosopher 1895–1986

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