In a bit of a funny ol mood so I'll just go with Krishnamurti again.. Don't really know what's up, but it don't matter.. So here goes:
A new consciousness and a totally new morality are necessary to bring about a radical change in the present culture and social structure. This is obvious, yet the left and the right and the revolutionary seem to disregard it. Any dogma, any formula, any ideology is part of the old consciousness; they are the fabrications of thought whose activity is fragmentation - the left, the right, the centre. This activity will inevitably lead to bloodshed of the right or of the lest or to totalitarianism. This is what is going on around us. One sees the necessity of social, economic and moral change but the response is from the old consciousness, thought being the principal actor. The mess, the confusion and the misery that human beings have got into are within the area of the old consciousness, and without changing that profoundly, every human activity, political, economic or religious, will only bring us to the destruction of each other and of the earth. This is so obvious to the sane.
One has to be a light to oneself; this light is the law. There is no other law. All the other laws are made by thought and so fragmentary and contradictory. To be a light to oneself is not to follow the light of another, however reasonable, logical, historical, and however convincing. You cannot be a light to yourself if you are in the dark shadows of authority, of dogma, of conclusion. Morality is not put together by thought; it is not the outcome of environmental pressure; it is not of yesterday, of tradition. Morality is the child of love and love is not desire and pleasure. Sexual or sensory enjoyment is not love.
Indeed!
Lotsa love!
...c
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