You say you are the observer and that fear is the observed. But is it really so? Are you a separate entity from your attributes? Are you not the same as your attributes? Are you not your thoughts, your feelings, and so on? You are not separate from your attributes, from your thoughts.

You are your thoughts. It is thought that creates the "you," the supposed separate entity. Without thought, the thinker does not exist. As it perceives the temporality of itself, thought creates the thinker as something permanent, stable, and then the thinker becomes the experimenter, the analyst, the observer, who is separate from the transient.

We all long for some permanency, and as we see the temporality around us, thought creates the thinker who is supposed to be permanent. The thinker subsequently proceeds to construct higher states of permanence: the higher self, the soul, and so on.

CATEGORICAL STATEMENT BY KRISHNAMURTI BEFORE HIS DEATH IN 1986: There is no successor or representative of mine who will continue the teaching now or at any time in the future, in my name... There is no need for interpreters... Every person should observe directly their own activities and not through some theory or authority...