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What is Consciousness, Anyway?
A mind that is limited to reason and analysis is incapable of perceiving what is truth.
— Krishnamurti
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Man identifies with the role he is forced to live: father, son, owner, worker, employee, manager, unemployed, etc… For each of these roles there are social behaviors, clothing, ways of thinking and expressing oneself that each adapts unconsciously.
And therefore we are never authentic individuals, but real imitators: we imitate models produced by the society we live in. Even in the most intimate behaviors we actually play pre-constituted roles, which are not limited to conventional behaviours and attitudes, but also penetrate into our convictions, our judgements, our conscience. So let’s keep on acting. The pollution of our minds is too widespread. You need to learn to tell the truth, but to tell the truth you need to become able to know what the truth is and what lies are… above all in themselves .
— Georges Ivanovič Gurdjieff
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Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach, undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life.”
— Herman Hesse
