10 quotes
The very nature of intelligence is sensitivity, and this sensitivity is love.
Letters to the Schools (1981)
Compassion is the essence of the wholeness of life.
Letters to the Schools (1981)
The past modifying itself is the future — a continuity of what has been — and we find security in continuity, not in ending.
Letters to the Schools (1981)
Goodness shows itself in behaviour and action and in relationship.
Letters to the Schools (1981)
This sound has its own silence; all living things are involved in this sound of silence. To be attentive is to hear this silence and move with it.
Letters to the Schools (1981)
Attention is this hearing and this seeing, and this attention has no limitation, no resistance, so it is limitless. To attend implies this vast energy: it is not pinned down to a point.
Letters to the Schools (1981)
Compassion and intelligence walk together; they are not separate. Compassion acts through intelligence.
Letters to the Schools (1981)
The becoming is mechanical and implies time. Attention has no quality of time. All this is a tremendously complicated issue. One must gently, deeply go into it.
Letters to the Schools (1981)
Attention involves seeing and hearing. We hear not only with our ears but also we are sensitive to the tones, the voice, to the implication of words, to hear without interference, to capture instantly the depth of a sound.
Letters to the Schools (1981)
Goodness has no opposite. Most of us consider goodness as the opposite of the bad or evil and so throughout history in any culture goodness has been considered the other face of that which is brutal. So man has always struggled against evil in order to be good; but goodness can never come into being if there is any form of violence or struggle.
Letters to the Schools (1981)