Simplicity Comes Into Being When There is Freedom From the Desire to Achieve: Ojai 1949 - Public Talk 13

Simplicity comes into being when there is freedom from the desire to achieve

¿ One who is sincere can never be simple because he who is trying to be sincere always has the desire to pattern or approximate himself to an idea.

¿ Self-knowledge can be discovered more fully, deeply, widely, only when there is passive awareness, which is not the exertion of will.

¿ In the search for self-knowledge we get caught in self-consciousness. Being caught we make the thing in which one is caught the most im...