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"The objects I pursue are the projections of the mind as symbols from which it derives sensations.
The word 'God,' the word 'love,' the word 'communism,' the word 'democracy,' the word 'nationalism' -
these are all symbols which give sensations to the mind, and therefore the mind clings to them.
As you and I know, every sensation comes to an end, and so we proceed from one sensation to another;
and every sensation strengthens the habit of seeking further sensation. Thus the mind becomes merely
an instrument of sensation and memory, and in that process we are caught.
So long as the mind is seeking further experience it can only think in terms of sensation; and any experience that may be spontaneous, creative, vital, strikingly new, it immediately reduces to sensation and pursues that sensation, which then becomes a memory. Therefore the experience is dead and the mind becomes merely a stagnant pool of the past." The First and Last Freedom, p.101 |
