Tag:  Renewal

• If thought-feeling were capable of living in the now without distorting it then the past would be transformed into the eternal present. November 23, 2013

  When we listen to or experience something new our instinctive response is to compare it with the old, with a past experience, with a fading memory. This comparing gives strength to the past, distor...

• I think it is important that we should understand the whole question of death because, in that, there is renewal. June 01, 2014

  In discussing death, we found that, realising that everything comes to an end - relationship, things and ideas, not only physiological but psychological also - we are afraid of death, we are desiro...

• As one cannot think of the unknown, one can only think of the known, the outcome of the thought which is the result of the past. June 02, 2014

  As thought moves from the known to the known, there is no ending of thought; therefore, there is no renewal; and it is only in death there is renewal. A society can be renewed only when it throws o...

• In order to bring about a renewal we must die; and that means we must start anew, putting away completely all memories of the past. June 07, 2014

  Every experience is leaving a residue and we call it memory. When we meet an experience anew, it will not leave any residue; that occurs when we meet the experience direct without a screen. When ne...

• There is no renewal through memory, through continuity - there is renewal only when there is an ending, there is freshness only when there is a death, when idea ceases. May 02, 2015

  Through continuity, is there ever renewal? Do you understand? The 'I' continues from memory to memory - the memory of my achievements, my faculties, my properties, my family, my ideation, my though...