Mere Isolation In An Enclosing

The Following Of Authority Is The Denial Of Intelligence. [it] May Help Us Temporarily To Cover Up Our Difficulties And Problems; But To Avoid A Problem Is Only To Intensify It, And In The Process, Self-knowledge And Freedom Are Abandoned.

As Long As The Mind Is In Conflict-blaming, Resisting, Condemning-there Can Be No Understanding. If I Want To Understand You, I Must Not Condemn You, Obviously.

And It Is Impossible To Treat Human Beings As Human Beings If You Label Them, If You Term Them, If You Give Them A Name As Hindus, Russians, Or What You Will. It Is So Much Easier To Label People, For Then You Can Pass By And Kick Them, Drop A Bomb On India Or Japan.

Why Haven't We, With All Our Cunning, Experience, Resolved This Problem Of Fear Completely? Isn't Fear The Cause Of The 'me'?

So When You Are Listening To Somebody, Completely, Attentively, Then You Are Listening Not Only To The Words, But Also To The Feeling Of What Is Being Conveyed, To The Whole Of It, Not Part Of It.