Image

When we experience anything, our brain creates an image of that experience. Without these images we can not recognise anything. These images are the contents of our consciousness. 

Each one creates for himself an image, or an image is imposed on us by society or the religion. By a series of incidents and accidents, you create an image, and the image becomes all-important because it gives you a sense of reality and security. You cling to that. 

That image is a structure of words and dead memories, which is nothing at all. 

Actually we are just humans. But a married man creates an image of his wife, and the wife creates an image about him. These two images have a relationship, not the human beings. You think you are an American and you have an image as an American, or Christian, or Hindu, and all the rest of it. 

These images are the cause of separatism. Where there is separateness, there must be struggle, conflict and misery.

J Krishnamurti,

From an Interview by Gary Null, New York City, 25 March 1982