Quote of the Month May 2012 | Quest Foundation

Authority Prevents Creativeness
Authority in its very nature prevents the full aware of oneself and therefore ultimately destroys freedom; in freedom alone can there be creativeness. There can be creativeness only through self-knowledge. Most of us are not creative; we are repetitive machines, mere gramophone records playing over and over again certain songs of certain of conclusions and memories, either our own or of another. Such repetition is not creative being – it is what we want. Because we want to be inwardly secure, we are constantly seeking methods and means for this security, the worship of another, which destroys comprehension, that spontaneous tranquility of mind in which alone there can be a state of creativeness.
-Truth is where You are Not, Page 82

Transformation: Oneself and the World
…The transformation of the world is brought by the transformation of oneself, because the self is the product and a part of the total process of human existence. To transform oneself, self-knowledge is essential; without knowing what you are, there is no basis for right thought, and without knowing yourself there cannot be transformation.
-Truth is where You are Not, Page 72

Our Relationship Creates the Society
…The solution obviously lies in the creator of the problem, in the creator of the mischief, of the hate and of the enormous misunderstanding that exists between human beings. The creator of this mischief, the creator of these problems is the individual, you and I, not the world as we think of it. The world is your relationship with another. The world is not something separate from you and me; the world, society, is the relationship that we establish or seek to establish between each other.
-Truth is where You are Not, Page 68

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