To change anything in your world, there must be a discontinuity. A discontinuity is a break, a fracture, a gap or a leap in an uninterrupted sequence. The French philosopher Michel Foucault said there is a discontinuity in history where "things are no longer perceived, described, expressed, characterised, classified, and known in the same way".
True creativity, the one that changes the world, is about creating discontinuities. As long as you allow your future to be defined by your past, you can't create a discontinuity.
However, to devise such a discontinuity is not an easy fit. We all live and act within a reality defined by the stories and beliefs we have acquired and built through our lives. Some of those stories and beliefs have passed through generations and have become deeply embedded in the culture in which we grew up. Those stories and beliefs guide our choices, words and actions. They create our reality.
So, if you don't like your reality, the only way to change it is to create a discontinuity. To challenge those stories and beliefs to find new meanings until you perceive, describe, express, characterise, classify and know things in a new way.
That's the vital choice you have to make.
Are you willing to challenge your truth?
Society is the outcome of our projections and intentions, and therefore, we are not separate from society. Since one who goes against society is not necessarily a revolutionary, is it not important to understand what we mean by revolution? As long as we base revolution on an idea, it is not a revolution. A revolution based on belief, dogma or knowledge is no revolution at all but merely a modified continuation of the old. A reaction of the background against the conditioning influence of society is an escape, not a revolution.
There is a real revolution only when one understands the whole total process of oneself. As long as we accept the pattern of society, as long as we produce the influences which create a society based on violence, intolerance and static progress – as long as that process exists, society will try to control the individual. As long as you are attempting to be creative within the field of your conditioning, you cannot be creative. There is creativeness only when the mind is completely understood, and then the reason does not depend on mere expression. The expression is of secondary importance.
From Krishnamurti in Paris 1950, Talk 3