Spencer Heath Archive

Item 2543

Penned note and enclosure from F.A. (“Baldy”) Harper, Foundation for Economic Education, Irvington-on-Hudson, New York

March 18, 1957

 

 

 

Dear Mr. Heath:

 

This item, in a letter written by my octogenarian friend Bob Smitley (151 East Palisade Avenue, Englewood, New Jersey) may interest you.

 

                                                     

                                   /s/ Baldy

 

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OCCASIONALLY from R. L. S.                         March 1957

 “Because we play with causes and effects and never go beyond them, except verbally, our lives are empty, without much significance. It is for this reason that we have become slaves to political excitement and to religious sentimentalism.  There is hope only in the integration of the several processes of which we are made up. This integration does not come into being through any ideology, or through following any particular authority, religious or political; it comes into being only through extensive and deep awareness. This awareness must go into the deeper layers of consciousness and not be content with surface responses.”

 

The above quotation is from “Commentaries on Living” by

J. Krishnamurti. On the dust cover of the book is a Special

Request from the publishers: “We respectfully request that you,

the prospective reader, open this book at the beginning of any of

the 88 chapters – and read for one minute.”