To understand something, I must give it full attention, and an ideal is merely a distraction which prevents my giving that feeling or that quality full attention at a given time. If I am fully aware, if I give my full attention to the quality I call greed without the distraction of an ideal, then am I not in a position to understand greed and so dissolve it? You see, we are so accustomed to postponement, and ideals help us to postpone; but if we can put away all ideals -because we understand the escapes, the postponing quality of an ideal- and face the thing as it is, directly, immediately, give our full attention to it, then, surely, there is a possibility of transforming it. – Krishnamurti, Collected Works, Vol. V,290,Choiceless Awareness