Speaking of Sensitivity

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A Mind Rich with Innocence

 

Truth, the real God—the real God, not the God that man has made— does

not want a mind that has been destroyed, petty, shallow, narrow,

limited. It needs a healthy mind to appreciate it; it needs a rich

mind—rich, not with knowledge but with innocence—a mind upon which there

has never been a scratch of experience, a mind that is free from time.

The gods that you have invented for your own comforts accept torture;

they accept a mind that is being made dull. But the real thing does not

want it; it wants a total, complete human being whose heart is full,

rich, clear, capable of intense feeling, capable of seeing the beauty of

a tree, the smile of a child, and the agony of a woman who has never had

a full meal.

 

You have to have this extraordinary feeling, this sensitivity to

everything—to the animal, to the cat that walks across the wall, to the

squalor, the dirt, the filth of human beings in poverty, in despair. You

have to be sensitive—which is to feel intensely, not in any particular

direction, which is not an emotion which comes and goes, but which is to

be sensitive with your nerves, with your eyes, with your body, with your

ears, with your voice. You have to be sensitive completely all the time.

Unless you are so completely sensitive, there is no intelligence.

Intelligence comes with sensitivity and observation.