“You must understand the whole of life, not just one part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, why you must sing, dance and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.”
—Krishnamurti
Steve Schlafmanx.com“You must understand the whole of life, not just one part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, why you must sing, dance and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.” —Krishnamurti
it’s the stuff that’s about what it feels like to live. Instead of being a relief from what it feels like to live.
David Lipsky • Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself
It is inevitably true that life is suffering. But the reverse is also true: suffering is life. It is in the midst of suffering that we get to exercise so many of the virtues that make us human. Our sense of courage, justice, compassion, wisdom; all these things manifest and operate in and because of the reality of suffering. All those aspects of
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Carl Jung... Read it five or six times today. Bookshelves of truth in a few paragraphs. Do your future self a favour
“People do not realize just how much they are putting at risk when they don’t accept what Life presents them with, the questions and tasks that Life sets them.
When they... See more