Kinfonet Quote of the Day: In action born of choice there is no discernment, choice being calculation, a remembrance of incomplete action.

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Frognerseteren, Norway | 4th Public Talk, September 12, 1933

You look to time to change you. You say to yourself, 'Through the multiplication of experiences, as in changing from the desire for the hat to the desire for God, I shall learn wisdom, I shall learn understanding.' In action born of choice there is no discernment, choice being calculation, a remembrance of incomplete action. That is, you now meet an experience partially, with a religious bias, with the prejudices of social or class distinctions, and this perverted mind, when it meets life, creates choice; it does not give you the fullness of understanding. But if you meet life with freedom, with openness, with simplicity, then choice disappears, for you live completely, without creating the conflict of opposites.

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