Jiddu Krishnamuti
Book of Life pg. 56
My Notes:
Most of us are living through our lives half-asleep - in a state of trance
without attention to the present -
always 'looking forward to' or 'looking backward'
The result - lack of care
We are busy creating ideas, analyses and forecasts -
of what might be? How to become?
and end up with a loitering mind .
I look back at my life - most of it went like above!
a life of egocentricity, pride and acquiring possessions
All matters of Gross! No subtlety whatsoever!
it was certainly not a life of attention!
JK calls it this way -
"There is goodness only when , there is total attention
An attention that has no motive- to be or not to be
When there is a motive for attention, is there attention?
If i pay attention to acquire something,
the acquisition, whether it be good or bad - is not attention - its a distraction - A division! "
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