If I want to understand something, I must observe, I must not criticize, I must not condemn, I … - Jiddu Krishnamurti

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I know it shouldn't make a difference, but crossing the dateline, we weren't sure what day it was - it was very strange. Now, I seem to cope with it better.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

If I want to understand something, I must observe, I must not criticize, I must not condemn, I must not pursue it as pleasure or avoid it as non-pleasure. There must merely be the silent observation of a fact.

Avoid, Condemn, Facts, Pleasure, Silent, Want

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Why are we such tortured human beings, with tears in our eyes and false laughter on our lips? If you could walk alone among those hills or in the woods or along the long, white, bleached sands, in that solitude you would know what meditation is. The ecstasy of solitude comes when you are not frightened to be alone no longer belonging to the world or attached to anything. Then, like that dawn that came up this morning, it comes silently, and makes a golden path in the very stillness, which was at the beginning, which is now, and which will be always there.

Belonging, Eye, Human, Laughter, Morning, Solitude

The description is not the described; I can describe the mountain, but the description is not the mountain, and if you are caught up in the description, as most people are, then you will never see the mountain

Caught, Life, Love, Mountain, People, Truth

If we want to change existing conditions, we must first transform ourselves, which means that we must become aware of our own actions, thoughts and feelings in everyday life.

Change, Conditions, Feelings, Life Changing, Mean, Thoughts

There is hope in people, not in society, not in systems, but in you and me.

Hope, People, Society, Systems, There Is Hope

If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.

Answer, Come, Life, Love, Separate, Truth