Guest guest Posted May 14, 2006 Report Share Posted May 14, 2006 beautiful, steve. i have never really appreciated krishnamurti... but i really like this quote. excellent. thanks for posting it. love, patricia On May 13, 2006, at 9:10 PM, Steven Stuckey wrote: > > A poem of another kind-- I can faintly smell the night blooming > jasmine in these words....... > > > "If I were foolish enough to give you a system, and if you were > foolish enough to follow it, you would merely be copying, > imitiating, accepting, and when you do that you have set up in > yourself the authority of another and hence there is conflict > between you and that authority. > You feel you must do such and such a thing because you have been > told to do it and yet you are incapable of doing it. You have you > own particular inclinations, tendencies and pressures which > conflict with the system you think you ought to follow and > therefore there is contradiction. So you will lead a double life > between the ideology of the system and the actuality of your daily > existence. In trying to conform to the ideology, you suppress > yourself--whereas what is actually true is not the ideology, but > what you are. If you try to study yourself according to another, > you will always be a secondhand human being." > > > ..."So you are left with yourself, and that is the actual state for > a man to be who is very serious about all this; and as you are no > longer looking to anybody or anything for help, you are aleady free > to discover. And when there is freedom, there is energy; and when > there is freedom it can never do anything wrong. Freedom is > entirely different from revolt. There is no such thing as doing > right or wrong when there is freedom. You are free and from that > center you act. And hence there is no fear, and a mind that has no > fear is capable of great love. And when there is love it can do > what it will." > > J. Krishnamurti > > "Freedom From the Known" > > > > Best wishes, > > Steve > > > > > > > > > Visit your group "valist" on the web. > > > valist > > > > www.AesculapiusPress.com <*> valist/ <*> valist <*> Your Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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