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♥ "Todos nós, deveríamos de ter a possibilidade
de pintar o “Nosso” Mundo com as cores que quisessemos…"

An Image About Oneself…

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♥ Why does one create an image about oneself?
"One has an idea, a symbol of oneself, an image of oneself: what one should be, what one is, or what one should not be.

Why does one create an image about oneself?
Because one has never studied what one is, actually.

We think we should be this or that: the ideal, the hero, the example. What awakens anger is that our ideal, the idea we have of ourselves, is attacked. And our idea about ourselves is our escape from the fact of what we are. But when you are observing the actual fact of what you are, no one can hurt you. Then, if one is a liar and is told that one is a liar, it does not mean that one is hurt: it is a fact. But when you are pretending you are not a liar and are told that you are, then you get angry, violent.

So, we are always living in an ideational world, a world of myth, and never in the world of actuality. To observe what is, to see it, actually be familiar with it, there must be no judgment, no evaluation, no opinion, no fear."

- By K’s: Collected Works, Vol. XII - 246

Murphy’s Laws

♥ Everybody knows some Murphy’s Laws. Certainly, some of these situations it’s already happened to all of us. Don’t you agree? If you don’t, try to prove me, that I’m wrong!!!

The most known:
“If anything can go wrong, it will” – Specially at the most inopportune time, and it will be definetely all your fault, and everyone will know it.

“If anything just cannot go wrong, it will anyway...”
“If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.”

Murphy's Law of Thermodynamics

“Things get worse under pressure.”

The Murphy Philosophy
“Smile . . . tomorrow will be worse.”

Murphy's Constant
“Matter will be damaged in direct proportion to its value.”

Addition to Murphy's Laws
Never forget the "Boomer-rang" effect; “Whatever you do will always come back.”

“In nature, nothing is ever right. Therefore, if everything is going right ... something is wrong.”

“Nohing is as easy as it looks."
“Everything takes longer than you think and than it takes.”
“Every solution breeds new problems.”
“The cost of the hair do is directly related to the strength of the wind.”
“Great ideas are never remembered and dumb statements are never forgotten.”
“Traffic is inversely proportional to how late you are, or are going to be.”
“Things are never as good as they are bad.”
“The two most abundant things in all the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.”

“The probability of the toast landing peanut-butter-side-down is directly proportionate to the cost of the carpeting.”
“A falling object will always land where it can do the most damage.”
“A valuable dropped item will always fall into an inaccessible place.”
"Anything dropped in the bathroom will fall in the toilet”

“You will always find something in the last place you look.” - It is never in the last place you look. It is in the first place you look, but never discovered on the first attempt. But if you’re looking for more than one thing, you'll find the most important one last.

“After you bought a replacement for something you've lost and searched for everywhere, you'll find the original.”

As Long As We Possess, We Shall Never Love...

♥ We know love as sensation...

When we say we love, we know jealousy, we know fear, we know anxiety.
When you say you love someone, all that is implied: envy, the desire to possess, the desire to own, to dominate, the fear of loss...
All this we call love, and we do not know love without fear, without envy, without possession; we merely verbalize that state of love which is without fear, we call it impersonal, pure, divine, or God knows what else.
The fact is that we are jealous, we are dominating, possessive. We shall know that state of love only when jealousy, envy, possessiveness, domination, come to an end; and as long as we possess, we shall never love. ...

When do you think about the person whom you love?
You think about her when she is gone, when she is away, when she has left you...
So, you miss the person whom you say you love only when you are disturbed, when you are in suffering; and as long as you possess that person, you do not have to think about that person, because in possession there is no disturbance...
Thinking comes when you are disturbed and you are bound to be disturbed as long as your thinking is what you call love.

Surely, love is not a thing of the mind; and because the things of the mind have filled our hearts, we have no love.
The things of the mind are jealousy, envy, ambition, the desire to be somebody, to achieve success. These things of the mind fill your hearts, and then you say you love.
But how can you love when you have all these confusing elements in you?
When there is smoke, how can there be a pure flame?

- K´s Meditations

Self-Knowledge

♥ "Right thinking comes with self-knowledge."

"Without understanding yourself, you have no basis for thought;
Without self-knowledge what you think is not true.
You and the world are not two different entities with separate problems;
You and the world are one. Your problem is the world's problem. You may be the result of certain tendencies, of environmental influences, but you are not different fundamentally from another.

Inwardly we are very much alike;
We are all driven by greed, ill will, fear, ambition… Our beliefs, hopes, aspirations have a common basis.
We are one;
We are one humanity, though the artificial frontiers of economics and politics and prejudice divide us.

If you kill another, you are destroying yourself. You are the center of the whole, and without understanding yourself you cannot understand reality. We have an intellectual knowledge of this unity but we keep knowledge and feeling in different compartments and hence we never experience the extraordinary unity of man."

- K´s Meditations

Freud's Theory

♥ Freud didn't exactly invent the idea of the conscious versus unconscious mind, but he certainly was responsible for making it popular.

The conscious mind is what you are aware of at any particular moment, your present perceptions, memories, thoughts, fantasies, feelings, what have you. Working closely with the conscious mind is what Freud called the preconscious, what we might today call "available memory": anything that can easily be made conscious, the memories you are not at the moment thinking about but can readily bring to mind. Now no-one has a problem with these two layers of mind. But Freud suggested that these are the smallest parts!

The largest part, by far, is the unconscious. It includes all the things that are not easily available to awareness, including many things that have their origins there, such as our drives or instincts, and things that are put there because we can't bear to look at them, such as the memories and emotions associated with trauma.

According to Freud, the unconscious is the source of our motivations, whether they be simple desires for food or sex, neurotic compulsions, or the motives of an artist or scientist.

We are often driven to deny or resist becoming conscious of these motives, and they are often available to us only in disguised form.

There is no freedom of thought

♥ We live in a state of contradiction.
We talk about peace, and prepare for war. We talk about non-violence, and are fundamentally violent. We talk about being good, and we are not. We talk about love, and we are full of ambition, competitiveness, ruthless efficiency.
The action which springs from that contradiction only brings about frustration and further contradictions.

All thought is partial, it can never be total. Thought is the response of memory, and memory is always partial, because memory is the result of experience, so thought is the reaction of a mind which is conditioned by experience. All thinking, all experience, all knowledge is inevitably partial; therefore, thought cannot solve the many problems that we have.

If you observe your own mind you will see that your thinking is conditioned by your circumstances, by the culture in which you were born, by the food you eat, by the climate you live in, by the newspapers you read, by the pressures and influences of your daily life’s.

We must understand very clearly that our thinking is the response of memory, and memory is mechanistic. Knowledge is ever incomplete, and all thinking born of knowledge is limited, partial, never free. So there is no freedom of thought. But we can begin to discover a freedom which is not a process of thought, and in which the mind is simply aware of all its conflicts and influences.
- K´s Meditations

Derren Brown - Subliminal Advertising

♥ Este vídeo leva-nos a pensar…
- Até que ponto as nossas ideias são manipuladas por terceiros?!
- Será que para atingir determinados fins, são seguidos certos os meios que directa ou indirectamente e de forma inconsciente nos levam a atingi-los?
- Até que ponto temos um controle total da nossa mente, de forma a não sermos influenciados por factores externos?

Estas são apenas meras questões…

Everybody is Free (To Wear Sunscreen)

♥ Gosto imenso desde Video, e há muito que o queria pôr aqui...

Enjoy it!

We must die to all our emotions

♥ What do we mean by emotion?

Is it a sensation, a reaction, a response of the senses? Hate, devotion, the feeling of love or sympathy for another - they are all emotions. Some, like love and sympathy, we call positive, while others, like hate, we call negative and want to get rid of. Is love the opposite of hate? And is love an emotion, a sensation, a feeling that is stretched out through memory? ...So, what do we mean by love? Surely, love is not memory. That is very difficult for us to understand because for most of us, love is memory. When you say that you love your wife or your husband, what do you mean by that? Do you love that which gives you pleasure? Do you love that with which you have identified yourself and which you recognize as belonging to you? Please, these are facts; I am not inventing anything, so don't look horrified....It is the image, the symbol of "my wife" or "my husband" that we love, or think we love, not the living individual. I don't know my wife or my husband at all; and I can never know that person as long as knowing means recognition. For recognition is based on memory - memory of pleasure and pain, memory of the things I have lived for, agonized over, the things I possess and to which I am attached. How can I love when there is fear, sorrow, loneliness, the shadow of despair? How can an ambitious man love? And we are all very ambitious, however honourably. So, really to find out what love is, we must die to the past, to all our emotions, the good and the bad - die effortlessly, as we would to a poisonous thing because we understand it.
- Krishnamurti’s Meditations

Action Without Ideation...

♥ The idea is the result of the thought process, the thought process is the response of memory, and memory is always conditioned. Memory is always in the past, and that memory is given life in the present by a challenge. Memory has no life in itself; it comes to life in the present when confronted by a challenge. And all memory, whether dormant or active, is conditioned, is it not? Therefore there has to be quite a different approach. You have to find out for yourself, inwardly, whether you are acting on an idea, and if there can be action without ideation.
- Krishnamurti’s Meditations