To
understand something, I must give it full attention, and an ideal is
merely a distraction which prevents my giving that feeling or that
quality full attention at a given time. If I am fully aware, if I give
my full attention to the quality I call greed without the distraction of
an ideal, then am I not in a position to understand greed and so
dissolve it? You see, we are so accustomed to postponement, and ideals
help us to postpone; but if we can put away all ideals,because we
understand the escapes, the postponing quality of an ideal,and face the
thing as it is, directly, immediately, give our full attention to it,
then, surely, there is a possibility of transforming it. - The Collected
Works, Vol. V",290,Choiceless Awareness
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