I am really appreciating this staff retreat. We spend time each day listening to an audio of someone passionate about life and the possibility of revolution in consciousness. We spend time in the afternoon talking together in a group of 25 about subjects such as Doubt, Love, Attachment, Learning. We spend time in nature, we spend time alone in our rooms. We have time. And of course, a retreat isn’t really a retreat from anything but a step towards something more authentic which mightn’t be so possible or probable during the workaday life.

Yoga today was in the afternoon after the dialogue meeting. The introduction of the Bow. The intensity of the energy generated in the previous discussion of serious matters was able to move as it needed as I proceeded through the physical postures.

I am so grateful to live in a serious and responsible community and to be able to come away for these retreats together.

Hittleman:

If we do not experience satisfaction from our work, if work is continual drudgery and without meaning, we become irritable, frustrated and depressed.

Extract from Krishnamurti, Book of Life, 14 January:

There is a totally different way of learning … but to understand it and to learn in this different way, you must be completely rid of authority, otherwise you will merely be instructed and you will repeat what you have heard.