The real you is the construction of a space where we can find an essential value, a reality that could be eternal. What are the priorities that lead us to discover who we are or are not? Is it already decided that we only exist as a universally recognised scientific result, or can we perhaps find an identity outside the crystallised model of who we are? Let us start with an investigation of the community where we live and know best, and try not to grow old overwhelmed by a multitude of theoretical perspectives. We seek within ourselves the determination to escape the rules that dictate how we should interpret social life. We work to find our own preferred order and conflict within ourselves. (Mauro Astolfi)
“Have you discovered what you are? You are the property, the bank account, the furniture, the carpet, the ideas, the quarrels, the pleasures, the despairs, the agony of your own life, the contradiction, the revolt, the discontent, the desire for something good to happen. Such a lonely, isolated life, in which there is no relationship, in which there is no love, no beauty, no vastness, no space. That is what you are, and you want it to continue, and you will continue if you think it is worth it. What then is immortality and what is innocence? Can the mind that goes on in routine, in weariness, in despair, in loneliness, with all the misery and confusion, be innocent? To die every day to everything – and we mean to everything, to all pleasure and pain, to all bitterness and cynicism – to die every day freely, happily to the past, which means never to accumulate. Then the mind is free. Such a mind is then conscious.”
– From a public address by Krishnamurti in Amsterdam on 5 May 1969 –