The handout also refers to this quote from the cassette: "The highest form of human intelligence is the ability to observe without evaluating." Jiddhu Krishnamurti. Quotes tend to strike us forcefully, but they do come out of context, so our understanding of the impact lacks a certain clarity. Ironically, seeing this quote out of context may well bring us to think we observe something in it that isn't quite there. In any case, I would rather talk about forms of human intelligence and how they each assist us in knowing ourselves and operating in the world rather than constructing some dominator competition between intelligences. As we discussed, competition does not necessarily if ever assist us in our aspirations toward the excellence of becoming. Krishnamurti may simply want to emphasize the essential value of as clear an observation as possible. When we can't observe as fully as possible with our inherent complexities of perception, we will almost inevitably make inadequate or distorted evaluations of what we think and feel we see.[143]
Once we observe as fully and clearly as possible, we can move consciously and freely to next level of our observational experience, our response to our observation: "How am I feeling about what I have observed?
That may sound quite simple on its surface, but after all this discussion about meaning perspectives and interpretations, getting to how "I," or how we actually feel about something that we observe or experience may not come to us as easily as all that. One thing we may choose instead of feeling what we feel comes in blaming someone else for what we observe or experience: "You made me mad." In this construction, we do not even admit to our anger. We force the responsibility of our anger onto the other person or thing (computers suffer from this quite often). The utterance makes a claim about the other person. In such an utterance, what we really express is our desire to blame another person for a choice we have made. We choose to get angry, but what we really feel is a desire to blame. In that this thought hasn't come to me this clearly and well before, I feel quite pleased about getting to this, and it gives me a way of writing about an incident in my life which illustrates this well if not all that self-congratulatory.