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"...the new is always being absorbed by the old, into the old habits, customs, ideas, traditions,
memories. There is never the new, for you are always meeting the new with the old. The challenge
is new but you meet it with the old. The problem...is how to free thought from the old so as to be
new all the time. When you see a flower, when you see a face, when you see the sky, a tree, a smile,
how are you to meet it anew? Why is it that we do not meet it anew? Why is it that the old absorbs
the new and modifies it...?
To free thought, to be free of the thought process and so to meet the new is arduous, is it not?, because all our beliefs, all our traditions, all our methods in education are a process of imitation, copying, memorizing, building up the reservoir of memory. The First and Last Freedom, p.246-247 |
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"There is continuity so long as thought and feelings are not ended completely. You complete a thought
when you pursue the thought to its end and thereby bring an end to every thought, to every feeling...
So long as experience is not completely understood, there is residue, which is old, which is of yesterday, the thing that is past; the past is always absorbing the new and therefore destroying the new. It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy." The First and Last Freedom, p.248 |
