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hm, thoughts and qs:

• author keeps using male words throughout the whole novel.
• author says the objective of life is to find truth/god, unsure if i agree that there is any objective at all.
• how does the future planning and goal setting works within mental model of krishnamurti
• Encourages to discover ourselves. What if ourselves is cruel? He says that just observing that the mind is cruel without wanting to change?
• Is there ever an experience that is uncontaminated from the past?

highlights:

• Living in imitation is living in fear
• so that inwardly, deeply, psychologically you are in constant revolt; because it is only those who are in constant revolt that discover what is true, not the man who conforms, who follows some tradition.
• Being ambitious = thinking about yourself. To fulfill yr ambitious goals, u need to push others. Ambition is wanting to be someone- which is no longer free.

Freedom

• To be free is to be intelligent bc u need to notice influence of all societal parental religious and traditional conditioning. To see this influence requires deep insight.
  • But we cannot bc we have fears.
  • Freedom lies in understanding who you are from moment to moment conclusion. An intelligent mind is an inquiring mind, a mind that is watching, learning, studying. Which means what? That there is intelligence only when there is no fear, when you are willing to rebel, to go against the whole social structure in order to find out what God is, or to discover the truth of any-thing.
  • Being whatever you want, understanding your true nature and following it - requires a lot of courage. It is a feeling fo unsafety and discomfort
• Intelligence is not knowledge.
• To listen you must also have a quiet mind

Creative discontent

• Discontent creates space for creation
• Discontent with joy?
• It’s desire for the more that I prevents clear thinking

Creative joy of living