May 31st ~ Without freedom from the past there is no freedom at all, because the mind is never new, fresh, innocent. It is only the fresh, innocent mind that is free. Freedom has nothing to do with age, it has nothing to do with experience; and it seems to me that the very essence …
Modern capitalism is absolutely irreligious without internal union, without much public spirit, often, though not always, a mere congeries of possessors and pursuers. Maynard Keynes Economist Are we confronted with a tragic, insolvable dilemma? Must we produce a sick people in order to have a healthy economy, or can we use our material resources, our …
June 1st ~ To seek reality requires immense energy; and if man is not doing that, he dissipates his energy in ways that create mischief, and therefore society has to control him. Now, is it possible to liberate energy in seeking God or truth and, in the process of discovering what is true, to be …
June 2nd, 2020 ~ Conflict of any kind–physically, psychologically, intellectually–is a waste of energy. Please, it is extraordinarily difficult to understand and be free of this because most of us are brought up to struggle, to make effort. When we are at school, that is the first thing that we are taught–to make an effort. …
June 3rd ~ If you say, “How am I to save energy?” then you have created a pattern of an idea–how to save it–and then conduct your life according to that pattern; therefore, there begins again a contradiction. Whereas if you perceive for yourself where your energies are being wasted, you will see that the …
June 4th ~ You see that most of us are in conflict, live a life of contradiction, not only outwardly, but also inwardly. Contradiction implies effort . . . . Where there is effort, there is wastage–there is a waste of energy. Where there is contradiction, there is conflict. Where there is conflict, there is …
June 6th ~ Now the question is: Is there an energy which is not within the field of thought, which is not the result of self-contradictory, compulsive energy, of self-fulfillment as frustration? You understand the question? I hope I am making myself clear. Because, unless we find the quality of that energy which is not …