Truth has nothing to do with the crowd; truth has always been attained by individuals. A Buddha attains it, a Jesus, A Mohammed, a Moses, a Zarathustra. But they attain truth when they are absolutely alone in their deep meditative states, when they forget all about the world and the other, when they are no longer obsessed by the other in any possible way, when they are utterly alone drowning in their own consciousness and reaching the very bottom core of it
A group can have a mind---not a soul. The soul is always individual; the mind is always a group.
Sunday, September 20, 2009
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Reading List
- Alain de Botton: The Consolations of Philosophy
- Alec Wilkinson: The Happiest Man in the World
- Bhagavad Gita As It Is
- Daniel C Dennett: Breaking the Spell
- Daniel C Dennett: Consciousness Explained
- Daniel C Dennett: Darwin's Dangerous Idea
- Daniel C Dennett: Freedom Evolves
- David Weeks: Eccentrics
- Edward O. Wilson: On Human Nature
- Friedrich Schiller: Essays (The German Library)
- G. I. Gurdijieff: Life Is Real Only Then, When "I Am"
- Hil Washburn, ed: The Many Faces of Wisdom
- John Kekes: The Art of Life
- John Strohmeier: Divine Harmony (Pythagoras)
- Matthew Stewart: The Truth about Everything
- Michel Foucault: Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth
- Michel Foucault: The Hermeneutics of the Subject
- Michel Waldberg: Gurdjieff: An Approach to His Ideas
- Osho: The Book of Understanding
- Osho: The Book of Wisdom
- P. D. Ouspensky: In Search of the Miraculous
- P. D. Ouspensky: The Fourth Way
- Paul C. Vitz: Faith of the Fatherless
- Pierre Hadot: What Is Ancient Philosophy (tr: Michael Chase)
- Robert Wright: Nonzero: the Logic of Human Destiny
- Robert Wright: The Evolution of God
- Robert Wright: The Moral Animal
- Seneca: Dialogues and Essays
- Seneca: Letters from a Stoic
- The Upanishads
- Xenophon: A History of My Time

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