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"...do we know others if we don't know ourselves? Can we judge others, if we don't know the way of
our own thinking, the way we act, the way we behave? Why this extraordinary concern over others?
Is it not an escape, really, this desire to find out what others are thinking and feeling and
gossiping about? Doesn't it offer an escape from ourselves? Is there not in it also the desire
to interfere with others' lives? Isn't our own life sufficiently difficult, sufficiently complex,
sufficiently painful, without dealing with others', interfering with others'?"
The First and Last Freedom, p.197 |
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"We read about the experiences of others, we watch others play, we follow the example of
others, we quote others. We are empty in ourselves and we try to fill this emptiness with words,
sensations, hopes and imagination; but the emptiness continues."
Commentaries on Living, First Series, p.62 |
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"If I would understand you, I must have no prejudices about you. I must be
capable of looking at you, not through barriers, screens of my prejudices and
conditionings. I must be in communion with you, which means I must love you."
The Book of Life, July 31 |
