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“Living should be perpetual and universal benediction.”
― Wei Wu Wei

“Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom.”
― J. Krishnamurti

“The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.”
― J. Krishnamurti

“To be yourself requires extraordinary intelligence. You are blessed with that intelligence; nobody need give it to you; nobody can take it away from you. He who lets that express itself in its own way is a "Natural Man".”
― U.G. Krishnamurti, The Mystique of Enlightenment: The Radical Ideas of U.G. Krishnamurti

“The plain fact is that if you don't have a problem, you create one. If you don't have a problem you don't feel that you are living.”
― U.G. Krishnamurti, No Way Out

“I am not out to liberate anybody. You have to liberate yourself, and you are unable to do that. What I have to say will not do it. I am only interested in describing this state, in clearing away the occultation and mystification in which those people in the 'holy business' have shrouded the whole thing. Maybe I can convince you not to waste a lot of time and energy, looking for a state which does not exist except in your imagination.”
― U.G. Krishnamurti

“Life has to be described in pure and simple physical and physiological terms. It must be demystified and depsychologised”
― U.G. Krishnamurti

“We are not created for any grander purpose than the ants that are there or the flies that are hovering around us or the mosquitoes that are sucking our blood.”
― U.G. Krishnamurti, No Way Out

“The fact is that we don't want to be free. What is responsible for our problems is the fear of losing what we have and what we know.”
― U.G. Krishnamurti, No Way Out

“I discovered for myself and by myself that there is no self to realize -- that's the realization I am talking about. It comes as a shattering blow. It hits you like a thunderbolt. You have invested everything in one basket, self-realization, and, in
the end, suddenly you discover that there is no self to discover, no self to realize -- and you say to yourself "What the hell have I been doing all my life?!" That blasts you.”
― U.G. Krishnamurti

“It is fear that makes you believe that you are living and that you will be dead.What we do not want is the fear to come to an end. That is why we have invented all these new minds, new sciences,new talks, therapies, choiceless awareness and various other gimmicks.”
― U.G. Krishnamurti

“If you have the courage to touch life for the first time, you will never know what hit you. Everything man has thought, felt and experienced is gone, and nothing is put in its place.”
― U.G. Krishnamurti, Mind Is A Myth Conversations with U.G. Krishnamurti

“To live is to war with trolls.”
― Henrik Ibsen

“The secret, if one may paraphrase a savage vocabulary, lies in the egg of night.”
― Loren Eiseley, The Immense Journey

“...on the other hand the machine does not bleed, ache, hang for hours in the empty sky in a torment of hope to learn the fate of another machine, nor does it cry out with joy nor dance in the air with the fierce passion of a bird.”
― Loren Eiseley, The Immense Journey

“...but there is every reason to think that the bulging cortex which would later measure stars and ice ages was still a dim, impoverished region in a skull box whose capacity was no greater than that of great apes.”
― Loren Eiseley, The Immense Journey

“There is nothing very 'normal' about nature.”
― Loren Eiseley, The Immense Journey

“It was the world of the abyss, supposedly as lifeless as the earth’s first midnight.”
― Loren Eiseley, The Immense Journey

“...our heads, the little globes which hold the midnight sky and the shining, invisible universes of thought, have been taken about as much for granted as the growth of a yellow pumpkin in the fall.”
― Loren Eiseley, The Immense Journey

“For the first time in four billion years a living creature had contemplated himself and heard with a sudden, unaccountable loneliness, the whisper of the wind in the night reeds.”
― Loren Eiseley, The Immense Journey

“The iron did not remember the blood it had once moved within, the phosphorous had forgot the savage brain.”
― Loren Eiseley, The Immense Journey

“I am sure now that life is not what it is purported to be and that nature, in the canny words of the Scotch theologue, 'is not as natural as it looks.”
― Loren Eiseley, The Immense Journey

“If 'dead' matter has reared up this curious landscape of fiddling crickets, song sparrows, and wondering men, it must be plain even to the most devoted materialists that the matter of which he speaks contains amazing, if not dreadful, powers, and may not impossibly be, as Thomas Hardy has suggested, 'but one mask of many worn by the Great Face behind.”
― Loren Eiseley, The Immense Journey

“It is a commonplace of all religious thought, even the most primitive, that the man seeking visions and insight must go apart from his fellows and live for a time in the wilderness. If he is of the proper sort, he will return with a message. It may not be a message from the god he set out to seek, but even if he has failed in that particular, he will have had a vision or seen a marvel, and these are always worth listening to and thinking about.... One must seek, then, what only the solitary approach can give - a natural revelation.”
― Loren Eiseley, The Immense Journey

“Perhaps he knew, there in the grass by the waters, that he had before him an immense journey.”
― Loren Eiseley, The Immense Journey

“Already he [humanity] is physically antique in this robot world he has created. All that sustains him is that small globe of grey matter through which spin his ever-changing conceptions of the universe.”
― Loren Eiseley, The Immense Journey

“If one could run the story of that first human group like a speeded-up motion picture through a million years of time, one might see the stone in the hand change to the flint ax and the torch.”
― Loren Eiseley, The Immense Journey

“Out of the choked Devonian waters emerged sight and sound and the music that rolls invisible through the composer's brain. They are there still in the ooze along the tideline, though no one notices. The world is fixed, we say: fish in the sea, birds in the air. But in the mangrove swamps by the Niger, fish climb trees and ogle uneasy naturalists who try unsuccessfully to chase them back to the water. There are things still coming ashore. ”
― Loren Eiseley, The Immense Journey

“Lights come and go in the night sky. Men, troubled at last by the things they build, may toss in their sleep and dream bad dreams, or lie awake while the meteors whisper greenly overhead. But nowhere in all space or on a thousand worlds will there be men to share our loneliness.”
― Loren Eiseley, The Immense Journey

“We have joined the caravan, you might say, at a certain point; we will travel as far as we can, but we cannot in a lifetime see all that we would like to see or learn all that we hunger to know.”
― Loren Eiseley, The Immense Journey