"However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at. While there's life, there is hope."
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Alan Watts quotes
"People, your friends, all sorts of people, will do their utmost to persuade you that you're missing something. Because they're missing something, and they think they're getting it through a certain way. And therefore, to assure themselves, they'd like you to do it too."
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"When a man no longer confuses himself with the definition of himself that others have given him, he is at once universal and unique."
J. Krishnamurti quotes
"It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society."
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Questioner: “Sir, what do you want us people here in this world to do?”
Krishnamurti: “Very simple, sir. I don’t want anything. That’s first. Second, live, live in this world. This world is so marvellously beautiful. It is our world, our earth to live upon, but we do not live, we are narrow, we are separate, we are anxious, we are frightened human beings, and therefore we do not live, we have no relationship, we are isolated, despairing human beings. We do not know what it means to live in that ecstatic, blissful sense. I say one can live that way only when one knows how to be free from all the stupidities of ones life. To be free from them is only possible in becoming aware of ones relationship, not only with human beings, but with ideas, with nature, with everything.”
“Understanding of the self only arises in relationship in watching yourself in relationship to people, ideas, and things, to trees, the earth, and the world around you and within you. Relationship is the mirror in which the self is revealed. Without self-knowledge there is no basis for right thought and action.”
“Can there be a feeling without thought? Can you ride a feeling without directing it, seeking to change it, calling it good or bad? Try it.”
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