The mind, when there is division between the conscious and the deeper layers of the mind, must bring about disorder because there is no harmony. Harmony implies order, complete order – physical, emotional, intellectual order. Where there is division, there is no harmony. See the fact that analysis does not bring about harmony. Dreams with their intimations do not. They may explain, they may give an intimation, but dreams are a continuation of our daily living, in a different form. So dreams and analysis will not bring about harmony. Through negation of what is disharmonious, through negation of what is disorder, there is harmony. After all, order is security. The brain needs order. It may find order in some neurotic belief, it may find order in some mystical nonsense, it may find order in an experience, in a vision, in a belief, but such order, such belief, the various forms of drugs, and all the rest of it must inevitably bring disorder. The brain needs order, complete order, and that is only possible when you understand the whole structure, inward nature of yourself – to know yourself completely. Out of that comes strange and marvellous harmony and fullness. From a Public Talk, Rome, 29 October 1972 Read more |