KrishnamurtiSystems, whether educational or political, are not changed mysteriously; they are transformed when there is a fundamental change in ourselves.
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Martin Luther King Jr. said, “The greatest challenge to our democracy in the 21st century will not be terrorists or nuclear proliferation; it will be the widespread power of greed.” We should take that as a warning that the people who sit in positions of power and influence have a lot of responsibility to do right by all of us.
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