Monday, March 30, 2009

how i am

So I have decided to create a blog...since I can't afford a website here it goes! This blog is titled after an excerpt from a book I have been reading and something that I believe deeply in. The way I have always lead my life and the way I am. So much so that I decided to tattoo it on my foot. It's from a book by Krishnamurti titled Think On These Things...
(this is gonna be a long post, bear with me)

Life is really very beautiful, it is not this ugly thing that we have made of it; and you can appreciate its richness, its depth, its extraordinary loveliness only when you revolt against everything-against organized religion, against tradition, against the present rotten society- so that you as a human being find out for yourself what is true. Not to imitate but to discover-that is education, is it not? It is very easy to conform to what your society or your parents and teachers tell you.That is safe and easy way of existing; but that is not living, because in it there is fear, decay, death. To live is to find out for yourself what is true, and you can do this only when there is freedom, when there is continuous revolution inwardly, within yourself.

We must create an atmosphere of freedom so that you can live and find out for yourselves what is true, so that you become intelligent, so that you are able to face the world and understand it, not just conform to it, so that inwardly, deeply, psychologically you are in CONSTANT REVOLT; because it is those who are in constant revolt that discover what is true, not the man who conforms, who follow some tradition. It is only when you are constantly inquiring, constantly observing, constantly learning, that you find trush, God, or lovel and you cannot inquire, observe, learn, you cannot be deeply aware, if you are afraid.

Sorry this was so long, I just had to get it out there. Here's some work!




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