Daily Archive for December 25th, 2009

The heart of the matter is education, it is the total understanding of man…

It is not that there must be an end to seeking, but rather the beginning of learning.  Learning is far more important than finding.

As long as education is concerned merely with the culture of the outer…  the inner movement with its immense depth will inevitably be for the few and in that there lies great sorrow.  Sorrow cannot be solved, cannot be understood when you are running with tremendous energy along the superficial.  Unless you solve this with self-knowing you will have revolt after revolt, reforms which need further reformation, and the endless antagonism of man against man will go on.

The heart of the matter is education, it is the total understanding of man and not an emphasis on one fragment of his life…  All the enthusiasts for outward change always brush aside the more fundamental issues.

J. Krishnamurti, The Beginnings of Learning, Quotations from Part II

S p I d e r s

You can learn a lot from spiders, really.
First, there was Spider Woman who made
Earth and the tribes
And more recently, following Plato,
We’ve all been connected to the World Wide Web.

No kidding, though, spiders are incredible.
They work all night to build a lace-world in your garden
And, when you walk right through it,
They never turn a hair.

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