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Most of us waste this extraordinary thing called life.

 https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/536593-most-of-us-waste-this-extraordinary-thing-called-life-we

“Most of us waste this extraordinary thing called life. We have lived forty or sixty years, have gone to the office, engaged ourselves in social activity, escaping in various forms, and at the end of it, we have nothing but an empty, dull, stupid life, a wasted life.


Now, pleasure has created this pattern of social life. We take pleasure in ambition, in competition, in acquiring knowledge or power, or position, prestige, status. And that pursuit of pleasure as ambition, competition, greed, envy, status, domination, power is respectable. It is made respectable by a society which has only one concept: that you shall lead a moral life, which is a respectable life. You can be ambitious, you can be greedy, you can be violent, you can be competitive, you can be a ruthless human being, but society accepts it, because at the end of your ambition, you are either so called successful man with plenty of money, or a failure and therefore a frustrated human being. So social morality is immorality.”


Q: Our consciousness is fragmented. You talk of a wholeness. Can you teach us to live that wholeness in daily life?


K: Yes, not teach you but I will go into it. The question is: is it possible in our daily life to live a whole, complete full life. The word 'whole' means healthy, first - healthy body, healthy mind. Then it also means sanity; a sane mind, a mind that is capable of reasoning logically, objectively and so with clarity and therefore sanity. The word 'whole' means also holy, h-o-l-y. All this is implied in that word 'whole'. And the gentleman wants to know how to live a life that is whole.

https://jkrishnamurti.org/content/you-have-only-got-life

This one too long and not much cool stuff but read whole post may reveal some key point (that often already know but not sure).

For example, when we say 'I understand', be careful. When we say 'I understand' we give an end to it. (I am not good at English but I mean something or idea like this).

So truth is like flowing river (water streaming)... it dynamic etc.

https://jkrishnamurti.org/content/does-having-concepts-waste-energy


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