Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Psychological time exists only when there is comparison - JKOnline Daily Quotes

Psychological time exists only when there is comparison - JKOnline Daily Quotes

Psychological time exists only when there is comparison

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Psychological time exists only when there is comparison, when there is a distance to be covered between 'what is' and 'what should be', which is the desire to become somebody or nobody, all that involves psychological time and the distance to be covered. So one says, is there a tomorrow, psychologically? And this you will not be able to answer. Is there tomorrow - 'tomorrow' having come into being because I have had a moment of complete freedom, a complete feeling of something, and it has gone. I would like to keep it, to make it last. Making it last is a form of greed. We struggle to achieve that thing again. All this is implied in psychological time. When you have some experience of joy, of pleasure or whatever it is, live it completely and do not demand that it should endure, because then you are caught in time. - Talks with American Students, Chapter 4 1st Talk at Morcelo, Puerto Rico 14th September, 1968
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