Daily Quote, Tuesday May 12, 2009.
Good morning on K's birthday!
Thought gives duration to pleasure.
Thought, thinking about that from which it has gained pleasure, gives duration to pleasure. I had pleasure yesterday looking at that sunset, or that tree, or that extraordinary light of the evening on the water. Thinking about it has brought pleasure - not when I observed it, when I observed it there was no pleasure, there was a great sense of beauty, quietness of the evening; but the more I think about that quietness, that beauty, the more I derive pleasure from it - and I want the repetition of that pleasure. It's the same with sex, with any form of pleasure. So, sex has its own place - we are not discussing its right place - but one will discover what is its right place when one understands love, which is not desire and pleasure.
Love is not the opposite of pleasure and desire. Because, if one only knows desire and pleasure and wants to come upon this thing called love, to understand what love is, one must understand the structure of thought.
Talks in Europe 1967 -
I thought this quote was interesting a we were talking about this Sunday night- "Thought has created this thing (memory), given it continuity, nourished it day after day and held on to it. This is the greatest illusion because thought lives in time, and what it has experienced yesterday, it remembers through today and tomorrow; time is born out of this. All this is the product of thought- the fear, time and achievement, the everlasting becoming"
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