The First and Last Freedom has sold more copies than any other Krishnamurti publication. Aldous Huxley, a dear friend of Krishnamurti, wrote the foreword to this wondrous book. Aldous Huxley states in the first paragraph of the foreword, “Man is an amphibian who lives simultaneously in two worlds—the given and the home-made, the world of matter, life and consciousness and the world of symbols.” Huxley continues, “Only choiceless awareness can lead to non-duality, to the reconciliation of opposites in a total understanding and a total love.”

Huxley ends his ten-page foreword with Krishnamurti’s powerfully insightful words, “Love is love, not to be defined or described by the mind as exclusive or inclusive. Love is its own eternity: it is the real, the supreme, the immeasurable.”

From the book:

To be fully aware of the present is an extraordinarily difficult task because the mind is incapable of facing a fact directly without deception. Thought is the product of the past and therefore it can only think in terms of the past or the future; it cannot be completely aware of a fact in the present.

So long as thought, which is the product of the past, tries to eliminate contradiction and all the problems that it creates, it is merely pursuing a result, trying to achieve an end, and such thinking only creates more contradiction and hence conflict, misery and confusion in us and, therefore, about us.

Publisher: HarperCollins
Author/Editor: J. Krishnamurti
288 pp - Paper