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“The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.”
― Anton Chekhov

“You can stand on the cliff of my heart and shout nothing but ‘ugly’ through me. I promise all I will echo back is ‘Beauty, beauty, you have always been beauty”
― Andrea Gibson

“Life is the farce we are all forced to endure.”
― Arthur Rimbaud, Une saison en enfer suivi de Illuminations et autres textes

“You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.”
― Franz Kafka

“Beauty and ingenuity beat perfection hands down, every time.”
― Nalo Hopkinson, Sister Mine

“The crisis is there. The crisis is not in the world, it is not the nuclear war, it is not the terrible divisions and the brutality that is
going on. The crisis is in our consciousness, the crisis is what we are, what we have become.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti, The Real Crisis

“There is the sorrow of disease, there is the sorrow that man feels in complete isolation. There is the sorrow of poverty when you see all these poor, ignorant, dirty, hopeless people. There is sorrow when you see all the animals of the world being killed, destroyed, butchered in laboratories.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti, The Real Crisis

“So, what will make you change? A crisis? A knock on the head? Sorrow? Tears? All that has happened - crisis after crisis. You have shed tears endlessly, and nothing seems to change you because you are relying on somebody else to do the job... Nobody says, "I am going to find out.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti, The Real Crisis

“You raised a question: what is sacred Without finding that, without coming upon it - not you finding it - without that
coming into being, you cannot have a new culture, you cannot have a new human quality.”
― J KRISHNAMURTI, The Real Crisis

“Though the fox kills the chicken, and the bigger animals live on the little animals, what appears to be cruelty is a design of order in this universe, except for man. When man doesn't interfere, there is great beauty of balance and harmony.”
― J KRISHNAMURTI, The Real Crisis