Value system

You attribute a quality to an environment,
to an experience, only when
you want to derive something from it,
when you want to gain
or to have power or happiness.

Now this destroys true criticism.
Your desire is perverted
through attributing values, and
therefore you cannot see clearly.

Instead of trying to see the flower
in its original and entire beauty,
you look at it through coloured glasses,
and therefore you can never see it as it is.

- J.Krishnamurti