Leman İslam
@lemanisl
high-functioning sociopath
English teacher
AUL
8 Temmuz
93 okur puanı
Ekim 2021 tarihinde katıldı
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When we conform to tradition, we soon become mere copies of what we should be. This imitation of what we should be, breeds fear; and fear kills creative thinking. Fear dulls the mind and heart so that we are not alert to the whole significance of life; we become insensitive to our own sorrows, to the movement of the birds, to the smiles and miseries of others.
Ignorance is lack of knowledge of the ways of the self, and this ignorance cannot be dissipated by superficial activities and reforms; it can be dissipated by one's constant awareness of the movements and responses of the self in all its relationships. What we must realize is that we are not only conditioned by environment, but that we are the environment-we are not something apart from it. Our thoughts and responses are conditioned by the values which society, of which we are a part, has imposed upon us.
So, a mind that is caught in the net of words cannot understand truth.
Inquire about yourself. You are seeking; you are saying that you are missing something in this life inwardly not at the level of technique or having a petty job or more money. What is it that we are seeking? We are seeking because in us there is such deep dissatisfaction with our family, with society, with culture, with our own selves, and we want to satisfy, to go beyond this gnawing discontent that is destroying.
So happiness is not a thing to be pursued; it comes. But if you seek it, it will evade you.