脑袋有一个想法，也许是令人愉快的，它想成为那个想法，那想法其实就是你渴望的投射。可是，你是这样你不喜欢的，所以你想成为那样你喜欢的。那理想是一个自我的投射，这投射就是你现在延伸的相反，它也许不完全是相反，而是现在这继续下去，或者有小许变更。那投射是自我意志，矛盾的地方是要向那投射方向挣扎，你挣扎想成为某些东西，而那些东西是你的一部份，那理想是你的投射。看看你的脑袋怎样来玩弄奸计欺骗它自己，可是你就跟着去挣扎，追随你的投射、你自己的影子。你很激烈，但你在挣扎成为不激烈－那理想；但是那理想是现在这的投射，只是改了一个名称。当你察觉到这你自己在欺骗自己的技俩时，那虚假的就被看出来了。
The mind has an idea, perhaps pleasurable, and it wants to be like that idea, which is a projection of your desire. You are this, which you do not like, and you want to become that, which you like. The ideal is a self-projection; the opposite is an extension of what is; it is not the opposite at all, but a continuity of what is, perhaps somewhat modified. The projection is self-willed, and conflict is the struggle towards the projection. You are struggling to become something, and that something is part of yourself. The ideal is your own projection. See how the mind has played a trick upon itself. You are struggling after words, pursuing your own projection, your own shadow. You are violent, and you are struggling to become nonviolent, the ideal; but the ideal is a projection of what is, only under a different name. When you are aware of this trick that you have played upon yourself, then the false as the false is seen.
--J. Krishnamurti, The Book of Life