Love and sanity

[pjthompson]

Random quote of the day:

“The how implies that somebody is going to give you a method, a recipe, which, if you practice it, will bring about understanding. Can understanding ever come about through a method? Understanding means love and the sanity of the mind. And love cannot be practiced or taught. The sanity of the mind can only come about when there is clear perception, seeing things as they are unemotionally, not sentimentally. Neither of these two things can be taught by another, nor by a system invented by yourself or another.”

—J. Krishnamurti, “How To Live In This World,” The Urgency of Change

 

 

Disclaimer:  The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

 

Mirrored from Better Than Dead.

Comments

[mnfaure.livejournal.com]

Understanding means love and the sanity of the mind.

Understanding = sanity of the mind.

I've never thought of these two things together, but it is amazing how deep the ties between the two can go, how the search to understand others and events can make you saner and give you mental wholeness.

Tis indeed a crazy mind that refuses to understand or to see the importance of trying to understand.

[pjthompson.livejournal.com]

Yes, exactly. Once you truly understand the position of the Other, you can't think of them as Other anymore. They are part of the same human continuum upon which we all travel—just maybe using different approaches.