RE: News this week?14 Nov 2023 07:21
"It begins at school and you go through life repeating what others have said. You are therefore second-hand human beings."
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Longer passage: "So that is the factor of conditioning, through propaganda, newspapers, magazines, from the pulpit, and one becomes tremendously aware how necessary it is not to rely on outside influences at all. You then find out what it means not to be influenced. When you read a newspaper you are influenced, consciously or unconsciously. When you read a novel or a book you are influenced; there is pressure, strain, to put what you read into some category. That is the whole purpose of propaganda. It begins at school and you go through life repeating what others have said. You are therefore second-hand human beings. How can such a second-hand human being find out something that is original, that is true? It is very important to understand what conditioning is and to go into this very deeply; as you look at it you have the energy to break down all those conditionings that hold the mind."
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti, Flight of the Eagle
"If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it.
The mind, conditioned as it is by the past, always seeks to re-create what it knows and is familiar with. Even if it is painful, at least it is familiar. The mind always adheres to the known. The unknown is dangerous because it has no control over it. Thatβs why the mind dislikes and ignores the present moment.
When you are present in this moment, you break the continuity of your story, of past and future. Then true intelligence arises, and also love."
~ Eckhart Tolle
"Everyone sits in the prison of his own ideas; he must burst it open."
~Albert Einstein
Miscellaneous, Cosmic Religion, p. 104 (1931)
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