We have been talking about fear, and I think if we can go more deeply into it, perhaps we shall awaken to initiative. Do you know what that word initiative means? To initiate means to begin. I will explain further as I go along.
Question: How can we create a happy world when there is suffering?
Krishnamurti: You did not listen to what was being said. You were occupied with your question. While I was talking, your mind was wondering how you were going to ask your question, how you were going to put it into words, so your mind was occupied with what you were going to ask, and you did not really listen.
Have you ever sat still? You try it sometime and see if you can sit very quietly, not for any purpose, but just to see if you can sit quietly. The older you grow, the more nervous, fidgety, agitated, you become. Have you noticed how old people keep jogging their legs?
Question: You say old people are fidgety and bite their nails. Have you not marked younger people also doing these things? Then how is it that the poor old people who have many difficulties are pointedly mentioned as if they are fit for nothing?
We have heard people say that without ambition we cannot do anything. In our schools, in our social life, in our relationships with each other, in anything we do in life, we feel that ambition is necessary to achieve a certain end, either personal or collective or social or for the nation.