Walter

“When you say you love God what does it mean? It means that you love a projection of your own imagination, a projection of yourself clothed in certain forms of respectability according to what you think is noble and holy; so to say, ‘I love God’, is absolute nonsense. When you worship God you are worshipping yourself – and that is not love.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti, Freedom from the Known

“Je continuais à lire des illustrés, mais plus de livres qui remplissaient mon crâne et élargissaient mon front. Les lire, c'était pour moi prendre le large en bateau, mon nez étant la proue, et les lignes les vagues. J'allais lentement, à la rame, passant sur un mot que je ne comprenais pas, sans fouiller dans les dictionnaires. Il restait approximatif, dans l'attente d'être compris. Je devais y arriver tout seul, en trouver le sens à travers d'autres occasions, à force de le rencontrer.”
― Erri De Luca, I pesci non chiudono gli occhi

“But how can we be free to look and learn when our minds from the moment we are born to the moment we die are shaped by a particular culture in the narrow pattern of the ‘me’? For centuries we have been conditioned by nationality, caste, class, tradition, religion, language, education, literature, art, custom, convention, propaganda of all kinds, economic pressure, the food we eat, the climate we live in, our family, our friends, our experiences – every influence you can think of – and therefore our responses to every problem are conditioned.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti, Freedom from the Known

“Attention is not the same thing as concentration. Concentration is exclusion; attention, which is total awareness, excludes nothing. It seems to me that most of us are not aware, not only of what we are talking about but of our environment, the colours around us, the people, the shape of the trees, the clouds, the movement of water.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti, Freedom from the Known