The First Step Is The Last Step

'The first step is the last step. The first step is to perceive, perceive what you are thinking, perceive your ambition, perceive your anxiety, your loneliness, your despair, this extraordinary sense of sorrow, perceive it, without any condemnation, justification, without wishing it to be different. Just to perceive it, as it is. When you perceive it as it is, then there is a totally different kind of action taking place, and that action is the final action. Right? That is, when you perceive something as being false or as being true, that perception is the final action, which is the final step.' This book consists of the talks Krishnamurti have between December 1970 and January 1971. For those who have gone seriously into Krishnamurti teachings, this book offers strikingly new perspectives on man's ancient quest for self-knowledge.