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Thursday, November 20, 2025
Wednesday, November 19, 2025
Robert Frost
The Investment by Robert Frost
('You couldn't call it living, for it ain't'),
There was an old, old house renewed with paint,
And in it a piano loudly playing.
Out in the plowed ground in the cold a digger,
Among unearthed potatoes standing still,
Was counting winter dinners, one a hill,
With half an ear to the piano's vigor.
All that piano and new paint back there,
Was it some money suddenly come into?
Or some extravagance young love had been to?
Or old love on an impulse not to care-
Not to sink under being man and wife,
But get some color and music out of life?
The Teacher and the Student
Nobody can teach you about yourself except yourself, so you have to be the guru and the disciple yourself, and learn from yourself. What you learn from another is not true.
Krishnamurti at Madras 1971, Talk 3
To be free of all authority
To be free of all authority, your own and that of another, is to die to everything of yesterday, so that your mind is fresh, young, innocent, full of vigour and passion.
Krishnamurti, Freedom From the Known
To be Aware
To be aware means to be sensitive, alive to the things about one, to nature, to people, to colour, to trees, to the environment, to the social structure, the whole thing; to be aware outwardly of all that’s happening and to be aware of what is happening inside.
Krishnamurti at Brockwood Park 1977, Discussion 2
When one is in disorder and confusion, society becomes utterly chaotic; then that very disorder creates authority. Krishnamurti, The Whole Movement of Life is Learning
https://kfoundation.org/the-whole-movement-of-life-is-learning-chapter-48/
Of course, the authoritarian attitude destroys all intelligence. The sense of obedience breeds only fear which in itself inevitably drives away the understanding of the true nature of intelligence. So what place has authority in a school? We have to study authority, not merely assert that there should be no authority but only freedom. We have to study it as we study the atom. The structure of the atom is orderly. Obedience, following, accepting authority, whether it is blind or clear-eyed, must inevitably bring about disorder. What is the root of obedience, which breeds authority? When one is in disorder, confusion, society becomes utterly chaotic; then that very disorder creates authority, as has happened so often historically. Is fear the root of accepting authority, being uncertain, without clarity in oneself,? Then each human being helps to bring about the authority that will tell us what to do, as has happened in all religions, all sects and communities. It is the everlasting problem of the guru and the disciple, each destroying the other. The follower then becomes the leader. This cycle is forever repeating itself. Krishnamurti
Krishnamurti Quotes
I was first turned on to Krishnamurti in my 20's and the top of my head blew off. I still love his writings.
Have a peek.
Your own self-realization is the greatest service you can render the world.
Let what comes come. Let what goes go. Find out what remains.
The best way for one to serve the world is to win the egoless state.
If one’s mind has peace, the whole world will appear peaceful.
As you are, so is the world. Ramana Maharshi
One condition of the sentence is to write so well that no one notices that you’re writing. James Baldwin
The hardest thing about writing, in a sense, is not writing. I mean, the sentence is not intended to show you off, you know. It is not supposed to be “look at me!” “Look, no hands!” It’s supposed to be a pipeline between the reader and you. One condition of the sentence is to write so well that no one notices that you’re writing. James Baldwin
Tuesday, November 18, 2025
“What can you do. You get a name, you're called 'Thomas Bernhard', and
it stays that way for the rest of your life. And if at some point you go
for a walk in the woods, and someone takes a photo of you, then for the
next eighty years you're always walking in the woods. There's nothing
you can do about it.”
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