Monday, July 27, 2009

JKOnline RSS Daily Quotes

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It is not mere selfish investigation

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You are the world psychologically, and the world is you; and when you understand yourself you are understanding the whole human structure and nature. It is not mere selfish investigation, because when you understand yourself you go beyond yourself, a different dimension comes into being.    What will make us change? More shocks? More catastrophes? Different forms of government? Different images? Different ideals? You have had varieties of these, and yet you have not changed. The more sophisticated our education, the more civilized we become—civilized in the sense of being moreremoved  from nature—the more inhuman we become. So what shall we do? As none of these thingsoutside of me are going to help, including all the gods, then it becomes obvious that I alone have to understand myself. I have  to see what I am and change myself radically. This Light in Oneself, pp 14-15

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