"What we must do, what is crucial to our own survival, is encourage all who make."
- James Baldwin
"In
modern times it seems that sub lethal effects are killing us slowly. We
must gather now and look at empires past to learn. We must listen to
the birds and the bees. We cannot continue to live the way we have
because we are committing suicide. And you know maybe that's the way
it's supposed to be. Afterall, we are a part of the cycle of life. It's
time to reboot the system. ...."
"....if
I am stupid and I say I must become intelligent, the effort to become
intelligent is only a greater form of stupidity; because what is
important is to understand stupidity. However much I may try to become
intelligent, my stupidity will remain. I may acquire the superficial
polish of learning, I may be able to quote books, repeat passages from
great authors, but basically I shall still be
stupid. But if I see and understand stupidity as it expresses itself in
my daily life - how I behave towards my servant, how I regard my
neighbor, the poor man, the rich man, the clerk - then that very
awareness brings about a breaking up of stupidity. You try it. Watch
yourself talking to your servant, observe the tremendous respect with
which you treat a governor, and how little respect you show to the man
who has nothing to give you. Then you begin to find out how stupid you
are; and in understanding that stupidity there is intelligence,
sensitivity. You do not have to become sensitive. The man who is trying
to become something is ugly, insensitive; he is a crude person." ~J
Krishnamurti
