Wisdom

Here are all the articles — quotes from the wise along with short commentary on topics like building character, discovering purpose and happiness, love, making conscious choices, and more.

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When What You Have Gets Taken Away

“To be frustrated is to be psychologically prevented from gaining or achieving that upon which our mind and heart are set. We want something. . . and when we are thwarted, we feel frustrated, a feeling of being nothing, a miserable failure.” — J. Krishnamurti

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Don’t Resist The Moment

“Was Krishna cunning? No. . . . He tried his best to prevent the war. . . But, when once in the thing, you should not recede – that is the man of duty. Do not run away, it is cowardice. . . You should not budge an inch – of course not for a wrong thing; this war was a righteous war.” — Swami Vivekananda

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We Often Get This Wrong About Civilization

“If we deeply experienced and understood that the self is ever impermanent, then there would be no identification with any particular form of craving, with any particular country, or with any organized system of thought or religion, for with identification comes the horror of war, the ruthlessness of so-called civilization.”

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Why Our Leaders Are Confused

“’Our leaders are unable to give us a lead as they themselves are confused.’ The leader is created by the follower, by you, and since you yourself are confused, you can only create a confused leader.” — J. Krishnamurti

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Nature Has to Relent

“The smaller and more selfish I make myself, the more my fear. If a man thinks he is a little nothing, fear will surely come upon him. And the less you think of yourself an insignificant person, the less fear there will be for you.” — Swami Vivekananda

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Treat Every Experience Like This

“If you have lived an experience fully, completely, have you not found that it leaves no traces behind? It is only the incomplete experiences that leave their mark. . . Only when an experience is completed is there renewal.” — J. Krishnamurti

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The Mind Must Be Checked

“As a drawer is useful only when empty, so the mind must be free of all its accumulations, for only then can there be openness to the wisdom and the ecstasy of the real.”

— J. Krishnamurti

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