The Years of Awakening, © Mary Lutyens
”The truth is a land without paths. Man cannot approach it through any organization, any sect, dogma, priest or ritual, or through any philosophical or psychological technical knowledge. You have to find it through the mirror of relationships, through the contents of your own mind, through observation and not through intellectual analysis or introspective dissection. Man has built images of himself as a security fence - religious, political, personal. These are manifested in the form of symbols, ideas, beliefs. The burden of these images dominates the thinking of man, his relationships and his daily life. These images are the cause of our problems since they divide men. Your perception of life is shaped by concepts already established in your mind. The content of your consciousness is your entire existence. This content is common throughout humanity. Individuality is the name, the form, the superficial culture that he acquires through tradition and the environment. The uniqueness of man does not reside in the superficial but in the absolute freedom of the content of his consciousness, which is common in all human beings. Thus he is not an individual.
“Freedom is not a reaction; It is not a choice. It is man's claim to believe that having a choice is free. Freedom is pure observation without direction, without fear of punishment, without rewards. Freedom exists without reason; freedom is not at the end of the evolution of man but lies in the first step of its existence. By observing, one begins to discover the lack of freedom. Freedom is found in a consciousness not chosen in our existence and daily activity. Thought is time.
“Thought is born from experience and knowledge, which are inseparable from time and past. Time is the psychological enemy of man. Our action is based on knowledge and therefore on time, so man is always a slave to the past. Thought is always limited, so we live in constant conflict and struggle. There is no psychological evolution.
“When man becomes aware of the movement of his own thoughts, he will see the division between the thinker and the thought, the observer and the observed, the experimenter and the experienced. I will discover that this division is an illusion. Only then there is pure observation in which there is no shadow of the past or time. This eternal insight brings with it a deep and radical mutation in the mind. The total denial is the essence of the positive. When there is denial of all those things that thought has caused psychologically, only then is there love, which is compassionate intelligence.
