"Must You Not Break Through Your ...
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--Matthew Fiorello
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Jan 25, 2012

 

"Must you not break through your environment by questioning it, by being in revolt against it? If you are not in revolt, if you merely accept your environment, there is a kind of peace, but it is the peace of death; whereas, if you struggle to break through the environment and find out for yourself what is true, then you will discover a different kind of peace which is not mere stagnation. It is essential to struggle with your environment. You must. Therefore peace is not important. What is important is to understand and break through your environment; and from that comes peace. But, if you seek peace by merely accepting your environment, you will be put to sleep, and then you may as well die. That is why from the tenderest age there should be in you a sense of revolt. Otherwise you will just decay, won't you?" - J. Krishnamurti, "Think on These Things" (p. 71) 

 

Posted by Matthew Fiorello on Jan 25, 2012