pleasure principle as wisdom (if incomplete)

The dissolution of the self is not the evolution of knowledge of the self; time does not enter into it at all. There is no way or means to end it. The total inward non-action is the positive attention of beauty.

From The Beauty of Life: Krishnamurti's Journal

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Context: You cannot, may not, invite joy; if you do, it becomes pleasure. Pleasure is the movement of thought, and thought may not, can in no way, cultivate joy. If it pursues that which has been joyous, it is only a remembrance, a dead thing. Beauty is never time-binding; it is wholly free of time and so of culture. It is there when the self is not. The self is put together by time, by the movement of thought, by the known, by the word. In the abandonment of the self, in that total attention, that essence of beauty is there. The letting go of the self is not the calculated action of desire-will. Will is directive, resistant, divisive, and so breeds conflict.

~Krishnamurti

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