¶ Thinking (1)
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Thinking:
"In 1927 I said, 'I’m deeply concerned with thought-- the fact that man has the capability to think and remember, a capability it is very clear that animals don’t have. I was very aware of yoga. Very aware of Indian cults. Thinkers. People who spend all their time in meditation, thinking… But to be able to sit and think you also ought to have some fuel coming in, otherwise you can think for only about thirty days and then you’ll fall over.
"So somebody had to be producing something. So people who were sitting around thinking usually belonged to some religious sect and they had some peasants out there. They’d say: ‘We’ll do the thinking for you and you raise the vegetables.’ That’s what happened to most of the churches, most of the cults. I’m very interested in how you grow the food that people who are going to do the thinking eat, and I began to say-- these people talked with great pride of their mystical capabilities, getting through to greater presence and greater ecstasies-- I said: 'What moves me is that we were given the ability to think. What also moves me very much is that we were also given limited capabilities. We don’t have any manifestation of being able to get on without the rest of the Universe. So "
¶ Citations
- Rasa Gustaitis, WHOLLY ROUND (HR&W, NY), p.157, Feb’73
