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“As you watch anything—a tree, your wife, your children, your neighbor, the stars of a night, the light on the water, the bird in the sky, anything—there is always the observer—the censor, the thinker, the experiencer, the seeker—and the thing he is observing; the observer and the observed; the thinker and the thought. So, there is always a division. It is this division that is time. That division is the very essence of conflict. And when there is conflict, there is contradiction. There is “the observer and the observed”—that is a contradiction; there is a separation. And hence where there is contradiction, there is conflict. And when there is conflict, there is always the urgency to get beyond it, to conquer it, to overcome it, to escape from it, to do something about it, and all that activity involves time…. As long as there is this division, time will go on, and time is sorrow. And a man who will understand the end of sorrow must understand this, must find, must go beyond this duality between the thinker and the thought, the experiencer and the experienced. That is, when there is a division between the observer and the observed, there is time, and therefore there is no ending of sorrow. Then, what is one to do? You understand the question? I see, within myself, the observer is always watching, judging, censoring, accepting, rejecting, disciplining, controlling, shaping. That observer, that thinker, is the result of thought, obviously. Thought is first; not the observer, not the thinker. If there was no thinking at all, there would be no observer, no thinker; then there would only be complete, total attention.”
― The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti
― The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti
“That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you’ve understood all your life, but in a new way.” —DORIS LESSING”
― Get Out of Your Own Way: Overcoming Self-Defeating Behavior
― Get Out of Your Own Way: Overcoming Self-Defeating Behavior
“People obey to people with ideas... so visualize it like this... when you don't have ideas and meaning in life you obey to somebody who already got answers of this two things.”
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“Political correctness is a code to silence dissent as western society is razed. The culture wars will erupt into violence, pitting those who defend western values vs. leftists, their 'allies', and the rulers who want to consign western civilization to oblivion.”
― Springtime for Snowflakes: Social Justice and Its Postmodern Parentage
― Springtime for Snowflakes: Social Justice and Its Postmodern Parentage
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