krishnamurti talks about form v content in terms of ones own relationship to their thoughts. you think you have many fears, but there is only one fear--fear. you think you have many desires, but there is only one desire--desire. a whole world of content explaining and justifying a limited amount of feelings & states of being. and to your point those universal feelings should be ground for connection, but on the level of content, at least as it exists now, we stay in tension w each other, narcissism of small differences etc.
krishnamurti talks about form v content in terms of ones own relationship to their thoughts. you think you have many fears, but there is only one fear--fear. you think you have many desires, but there is only one desire--desire. a whole world of content explaining and justifying a limited amount of feelings & states of being. and to your point those universal feelings should be ground for connection, but on the level of content, at least as it exists now, we stay in tension w each other, narcissism of small differences etc.