If you can understand loneliness and go beyond it, then you will find there is no need to escape, no urge to be gratified or entertained, for your mind will know a richness that is incorruptible and cannot be destroyed.

—Jiddu Krishnamurti in Think on These Things

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About Jiddu Krishnamurti

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Jiddu Krishnamurti (pronounced /ˈdʒɪduː ˌkrɪʃnəˈmʊərti/ ; 11 May 1895 – 17 February 1986) was an Indian spiritual figure, speaker, and writer. Adopted by members of the Theosophical Society as a child, Krishnamurti was raised to fill the mantle of the prophesied World Teacher, a role tasked with aiding humankind's spiritual...

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Because we are inwardly empty, dull, mediocre, we use our relationships and our social reforms as a means of escaping from ourselves. I wonder if you have noticed how lonely most people are?

—Jiddu Krishnamurti in Think on These Things

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The understanding of what you actually are is far more important than the pursuit of what you should be.

—Jiddu Krishnamurti in Think on These Things

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It is only when you don’t vitally feel the truth of something that you say it is difficult to put it into action.

—Jiddu Krishnamurti in Think on These Things

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If you can look at yourself without condemning what you see, without comparing yourself with somebody else, without wishing to be more beautiful or more virtuous; if you can just observe what you are and move with it, then you will find that it is possible to go infinitely far. Then there is no end to the journey, and that is the mystery, the beauty of it.

—Jiddu Krishnamurti in Think on These Things

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True education is to learn how to think, not what to think. If you know how to think, if you really have that capacity, then you are a free human being—free of dogmas, superstitions, ceremonies—and therefore you can find out what religion is.

—Jiddu Krishnamurti in Think on These Things

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Silent gratitude isn't very much use to anyone.

—Gertrude Stein

Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.

—Gertrude Stein

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Everyone has their own problems. Some of them are awful and tragic, and if you knew what they were, you'd be grateful for the ones you have.

—Karen Kilgariff in Stay Sexy & Don't Get Murdered

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It's always better to expect for the worst. If the worst happens, you are prepared for it; if it doesn't, you get surprised and become grateful.

—Mya Robarts in The V Girl

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The more loss we feel, the more grateful we should be for whatever it was we had to lose. It means that we had something worth grieving for. The ones I'm sorry for are the ones that go through life not knowing what grief is.

—Frank O'Connor

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