You may have a great deal of knowledge and be vastly poor. The poorer you are, the greater the demand for knowledge. You expand your consciousness with a great variety of knowledge, accumulating experiences and remembrances, and yet are vastly poor. The skilful use of knowledge may bring you wealth and give you eminence and power, but there may still be poverty. This poverty breeds callousness; you play while the house is burning. This poverty merely strengthens the intellect or gives to the emotions the weakness of sentiment. It is this poverty that brings about imbalance, lack of harmony, and the conflict of division between the outer and inner. There is no knowledge of the inner, only of the outer. The knowledge of the outer informs us erroneously that there must be knowledge of the inner. Self-knowing is brief and shallow; the mind is soon beyond it, like crossing a river. You make a lot of noise going across the river, and to mistake the noise as knowledge of the self is to expand poverty. This expansion of consciousness is the activity of poverty. Religion, culture and knowledge can in no way enrish this poverty.

From The Beauty of Life – Krishnamurti’s Journal

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