Questioner: Is conflict necessary then? It may perhaps, after all, be the natural order of things. Krishnamurti: Can one go from one to the other? Can one change that which is to that which is not? Can disharmony be transformed into harmony? Is there any harmony at all, anywhere? Or is there only everlasting disorder? If there is harmony, at what level can it exist? Or does it only exist on the top of some mountain which the burning valleys can never know? As one sees from this window the quiet sea and the light on the water, one has a feeling deep within oneself that there must be a way of living without these endless quarrels with oneself and with the world. I must say I should like to find myself in complete harmony with everything about me and with myself. I wonder if I can ever be at peace with myself. When I wake up in the morning I see from my window little birds fighting with each other, but they soon separate and fly away, whereas I carry this war with myself and with others inside me all the time there is no escaping it. People have spoken of divine order nature is harmonious it seems that man is the only animal who violates this order, making so much misery for others and for himself. Questioner: I find myself in a great deal of conflict with everything about me and also everything within me is in conflict.
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