Prince & Krishnamurti

I was dreamin' when I wrote this
Forgive me if it goes astray
But when I woke up this mornin'
Could've sworn it was judgment day

The sky was all purple
There were people runnin' everywhere
Tryin' to run from the destruction
You know I didn't even care

Say say
Two-thousand-zero-zero party over
Oops out of time
So tonight I'm gonna party like it's 1999

War is all around us, my mind says prepare to fight
So if I gotta die I'm gonna listen to my body tonight

Yeah

Source: 1999 by Prince

"In other words, can you be instantaneously free? -- because that is the only way out of this misery. Perception can take place only in the present; but if you say, 'I will do it tomorrow', the wave of confusion overtakes you, and you are then always involved in the confusion.

Now is it possible to come to that state when you yourself perceive the truth instantaneously and therefore put an end to confusion? I say that it is, and that it is the only possible way. I say it can be done and must be done, not based on supposition or belief. To bring about this extraordinary revolution -- which is not the revolution to get rid of the capitalists and install another group -- to bring about this wonderful transformation, which is the only true revolution, is the problem. What is generally called revolution is merely the modification or the continuance of the right according to the ideas of the left. The left, after all, is the continuation of the right in a modified form. If the right is based on sensual values, the left is but a continuance of the same sensual values, different only in degree or expression. Therefore true revolution can take place only when you, the individual, become aware in your relationship to another. Surely, what your are in your relationship to another, to your wife, your child, your boss, your neighbour, is society. Society by itself is non-existence. Society is what you and I, in our relationship, have created; it is the outward projection of all our own inward psychological states. So if you and I do not understand ourselves, merely transforming the outer, which is the projection of the inner, has no significance whatsoever; that is there can be no significant alteration or modification in society so long as I do not understand myself in relationship to you. Being confused in my relationship, I create a society which is a replica, the outward expression of what I am. This is an obvious face, which we can discuss. We can discuss whether society, the outward expression, has produced me or whether I have produced society."

Source: p.9/10, The First and Last Freedom, J. Krishamurti, 1975.