"... we have not perceived the whole truth unless we have also perceived that the truth must operate. If we think it is the "Ego" or the "I" that operates, we are confused. (For example, that we follow truth because we are "honest," so that the Ego makes a "choice" ---as if the Ego could with meaning and sense choose to be "dishonest" and thus follow a falsehood.) In reality, it is the truth that operates, outside of the preferences of the Ego. And indeed, the truth can even operate on the Ego, by perceiving and understanding its motivations deeply. So what happens is that the basic principle of the individual ceases to be the Ego and is truth instead.
Now, at present, this happens in a restricted domain, such as science or art. But to see the basic principle of truth itself, it would be necessary for the individual to allow truth to operate unhindered in every field. A basic part of the whole truth is to perceive the falsity of every operative idea that is really false. This is extraordinarily difficult, as our motivations are confused and twisted in a very complicated way. Many of our false ideas operate subliminally, or even subconsciously. The problem is far more difficult to understand, than for example the theory of relativity, so that it requires a sustained and serious effort. "
(1917 - 1992)
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"I prefer an attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our own being" - Albert Einstein.
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