“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
From this it is evident that it is no question of pessimism or optimism, but that we must take account of the pleasures of life as well as of its pains and sorrows, and also of freedom from them, in order to understand life completely and objectively. Only then is true liberation possible.
Walpola Rahula • What the Buddha Taught
Have you ever thought, my friends, why it is that, after an unflattering or painful recognition —provided you go to its very depth and do not stop halfway —you experience such a dynamic state of harmony and aliveness? It is so only because, at that moment, you have fully utilized what is given to you, the fragment of time at your disposal. When you
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This is about the forest again—about the limits of genius, about the need to walk the land, as opposed to intuit and hypothesize from the edge. There are dimensions in your words—rhythm, content, shape, feeling. And so too with the world outside. The accretion of imperfect, discomfiting life must be seen and felt so that the space in your mind, gra... See more