How to Find Peace: Living in a Challenging World brings together extracts from J. Krishnamurti’s talks, speeches, and books on conflict, individual responsibility, and our relationship with the wider world.

Rather than offering simple answers, Krishnamurti invites readers to investigate how nationalism, ideologies, and the search for psychological security contribute to division. The collection explores what it means to take responsibility for peace in everyday life.

From the book:

As long as we use technological knowledge for the advancement and glorification of the individual or of the group, the needs of humanity can never be sanely and effectively organized. It is this desire for psychological security through technological advancement that is destroying the physical security of humanity. There is sufficient scientific knowledge to feed, clothe and shelter us all, but the proper use of this knowledge is denied as long as there are separative nationalities with their sovereign governments and frontiers—which in turn give rise to class and racial strife. So, you are responsible for the continuance of this conflict. As long as you, the individual, are nationalistic and patriotic, as long as you hold to political and social ideologies, you are responsible for war because your relationship with another can only breed confusion and antagonism. Seeing the false as the false is the beginning of wisdom, and it is this truth alone that can bring happiness to you and so to the world. As you are responsible for war, you must be responsible for peace. Those who creatively feel this responsibility must first free themselves psychologically from the causes of war and not merely plunge into organizing political peace groups—which will only breed further division and opposition.

Publisher: Watkins Publishing | Author: J. Krishnamurti | 147 pages | Hardcover

Krishnamurti is one of the greatest philosophers of the age. —Dalai Lama