So if you can look at all things without allowing pleasure to creep in - at a face, a bird, the colour of a sari, the beauty of a sheet of water shimmering in the sun, or anything that gives delight - if you can look at it without wanting the experience to be repeated, then there will be no pain, no fear, and therefore tremendous joy. It is the struggle to repeat and perpetuate pleasure which turns it into pain. Watch it in yourself. The very demand for the repetition of pleasure brings about pain, because it is not the same, as it was yesterday. You struggle to achieve the same delight, not only to your aesthetic sense but the same inward quality of the mind, and you are hurt and disappointed because it is denied to you. Jiddu Krishnamurti
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The quote above is from an author named René Descartes, and it talks about the idea of the thing in itself. What is the thing in itself? It is not something physical like a car or a house, but instead it is what we call the idea of the thing in itself. This idea can include anything we enjoy having. A beautiful face can be considered a thing in itself and when we look at that beautiful face we want to experience that beautiful face again. When we look at something like a bird or a tree, we feel inspired by them because they are not just physical things that are used to get us from point A to point B, but instead they are ideas that give us feelings of joy.

Source: Freedom From The Known

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