01/03/2025
"S’intégrer dans la norme n’indique pas nécessairement l’équilibre. La norme elle-même peut être le produit d’une culture déséquilibrée". Krishnamurti 🙏🏿
To fit into the norm does not necessarily indicate balance. The norm itself may be the product of an unbalanced culture. —Krishnamurti
From Commentaries on Living 1
Context: Balance is not a matter to be judged by the frustrated or by those who are successful. The successful may be unbalanced, and the frustrated become bitter and cynical, or they find an escape through a self-projected illusion. Balance is not in the hands of the analysts; to fit into the norm does not necessarily indicate balance. The norm itself may be the product of an unbalanced culture. An acquisitive society, with its patterns and norms, is unbalanced, whether it is of the left or of the right, whether its acquisitiveness is vested in the state or in its citizens. Balance is non-acquisitiveness. The idea of balance and non-balance is still within the field of thought and so cannot be the judge. Thought itself, the conditioned response with its standards and judgements, is not true. Truth is not an idea or conclusion.
