Freedom Is Not A Reaction; Freedom Is

A Conditioned Mind May Be Inventive; It May Think Up New Ideas, New Phrases, New Gadgets; It May Build A Dam, Plan A New Society, And All The Rest Of It; But That Is Not Creativity. Creativity Is Something Much More Than The Mere Capacity To Acquire A Technique. It Is Because This Extraordinary Thing Called Creativity Is Not In Most Of Us That We Are So Shallow, Empty, Insufficient. And Only The Mind That Is Free Can Be Creative.

What Meaning Has Such Meditation? There Is No Meaning; There Is No Utility. But In That Meditation There Is A Movement Of Great Ecstasy Which Is Not To Be Confounded With Pleasure. It Is This Ecstasy Which Gives To The Eye, To The Brain And To The Heart, The Quality Of Innocency. Without Seeing Life As Something Totally New, It Is A Routine, A Boredom, A Meaningless Affair. So Meditation Is Of The Greatest Importance. It Opens The Door To The Incalculable, To The Measureless.

Freedom From Something Is Not Freedom.

Intelligence Is Not Discernment And Judgment Or Critical Evaluation.

There You Have The Two Extremes: The Man That Is Concerned Mainly With The Hidden Life, And The Man Who Seriously Concerns Himself With The Expression Of That Life. What I Want To Do Is To Bring About Harmony Between The Two Extremes, For Therein Lies The Truth. The Harmony Of Life Is The Understanding Of Truth.