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Every page is a marvel. It is literally the Western world unraveled.

Absolutely phenomenal.

So many pages to go

I have not encountered a book that offers so much raw and perforating honesty about what we all, as human beings, are and can do. There are no hands being held or answers given, but what is instilled through Krishnamurti’s writing is a clearer way on how to approach the questions he poses – ones that are absolutely and irrevocably essential for us all to ask.

Nearly there with this incredibly useful—albeit technically loaded—beast.

A wonderful book. “Thought realises that it is limited, and because it is limited, fragmentary, divided, it has created this emptiness, loneliness. Therefore, when it realises this, loneliness is not”

Very much enjoying this.

Quite dense, yet holds some very invaluable and concise information pertaining to tertiary education.

There's such a calmness and clearness to Krishnamurti. This passage in particular about the mind is a good highlight. "...when the mind understands its whole process and so comes to an end, that is, when thinking ceases, then there is creation, and it is that creation which makes us happy. To be in that state of creation is bliss, because it is self-forgetfulness in which there is no reaction as from the self" p. 34

Quite an incredible account from Journalist James Lord on the art process and dialogue that coupled with lord sitting for the painter, Alberto Giacometti. This book is split into chapters that capture the modelling sessions that reflect the 18 days of painting, discussion and recollections of both Lord on Giacometti and Giacometti on Lord.

I'm looking forward to this.

I reinstate what I said at page 105 with the insertion that there is a huge amount of truths layed out here. One description of maya reveals the astonishing breadth of misinformed illusions.