Cultural Consciousness

Sari Bremer

We have used “positive” energy in wars, in writing books, in performing surgery, and to delve deep beneath the seas.

Non-action requires far more energy than the so-called positive action.

Positive action is to control, to judge, to escape. But non-action is the total energy of attention; of observation. In this observation, that which is being observed undergoes a transformation.

This silent observation demands not only physical energy, but also deep, psychological energy.

We are used to the former (physical energy), and this conditioning limits our energy. In a complete, silent observation, which is non-action, there is no dissipation of energy, and so energy is limitless.

— J. Krishnamurti

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You took the plants from our beautiful woods on your ships to lands already destroyed, and even more of you arrived to take our homes while we still lived inside them. You took the birds from the rookeries of beautiful waters, feathers for hats from near the mangroves, coats made from our animals, and all the time you lost so much, even taking, because you knew so little that a girl led the way to the fame of men, fed them, turned their canoes to safety. The more you took, the more you lost. And you need us now the way you needed us then, our land and labor, and…