Raed Chehaib

“The fundamental factor of self-deception is this constant desire to be something in this world and in the world hereafter.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti, The First and Last Freedom

“تتبخّر مياه البحر وتتصاعد ثمّ تجتمع وتصير غيمة وتسير فوق التلال والأودية حتّى إذا ما لاقت نسيمات لطيفة تساقطت باكية نحو الحقول وانضمّت إلى الجداول ورجعت إلى البحر موطنها. حياة الغيوم فراق ولقاء، دمعة وابتسامة. كذا النفس تنفصل عن الروح العام وتسير في عالم المادّة وتمرّ كغيمة فوق جبال الأحزان وسهول الأفراح فتلتقي بنسيمات الموت فترجع إلى حيث كانت: إلى بحر المحبّة والجمال، إلى الله...”
― Kahlil Gibran, ‫المؤلفات العربية الكاملة‬

“That is the difficulty, because most of us are incapable of being passively aware, letting the problem tell the story without our interpreting it. We do not know how to look at a problem dispassionately. We are not capable of it, unfortunately, because we want a result from the problem, we want an answer, we are looking to an end; or we try to translate the problem according to our pleasure or pain; or we have an answer already on how to deal with the problem.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti, The First and Last Freedom

“Where there is action of the self, there is no love. Love is not of time. You cannot practise love. If you do, then it is a self-conscious activity of the ‘me’ which hopes through loving to gain a result. Love is not of time; you cannot come upon it through any conscious effort, through any discipline, through identification, which is all of the process of time. The mind, knowing only the process of time, cannot recognize love. Love is the only thing that is eternally new. Since most of us have cultivated the mind, which is the result of time, we do not know what love is. We talk about love; we say we love people, that we love our children, our wife, our neighbour, that we love nature; but the moment we are conscious that we love, self-activity has come into being; therefore it ceases to be love. This”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti, The First and Last Freedom