There is disorder when we are pursuing ideals
What is the nature and structure of disorder? There is disorder, isn’t there? Where there is contradiction—saying one thing and doing something totally different—there is bound to be disorder. I wonder if one is aware of this. Then, there is conflict, disorder, when we are pursuing ideals or our own projection of what we think we ought to be. That is, where there is division between actually what is happening in ourselves and neglecting that and pursuing an idea; that is one of the causes of disorder. Another cause in the psychological, so-called inward life, is to pursue authority, the authority of a book, the authority of a guru, the authority of so-called spiritual people.
- Krishnamurti, Mind without Measure, pp 52-53