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"The mind that is not enclosed in any system or belief has beauty"
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The mind that is not enclosed in any system or belief has beauty

“On the journey of life and death, you must walk alone; on this journey there can be no taking of comfort in knowledge, in experience, in memories. The mind must be purged of all the things it has gathered in its urge to be secure; its gods and virtues must be given back to the society that bred them. There must be complete, uncontaminated aloneness.”
Krishnamurti, Commentaries on Living, Third Series, 64

“We know what others have done and do, we repeat what others have said—the Buddha, Christ, and all the others—we theorize. That is not intellectual freedom, which is freedom from thought. We are bound by thought, and thought is always old, it is never new; so intellectually there is no freedom in the deep sense of that word, because thought can never bring about that freedom. Intellectually we are bound and emotionally we are shoddy, ugly, sentimental, false, hypocritical.” Krishnamurti, You Are the World

Discontent is the beginning of freedom, and as long as you are trying to manipulate discontent, to accept authority in order that this discontent shall disappear, enter into safe channels, then you are already losing that pristine sense of real feeling. Most of us are discontented, either with our jobs, our relationships, or whatever we are doing. You want something to happen, to change, to move, to break through. You do not know what it is. There is a constant searching, inquiring, especially when one is young, open, sensitive. Later on, as you become old, you settle down in your habits, your job, because your family is safe, your wife will not run away. So this extraordinary flame disappears, and you become respectable, petty, and thoughtless.⠀
J. Krishnamurti, To Be Human
 
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Abraham Heschel
"Few of us know what to do with our lives, with our power and will"
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Few of us know what to do with our lives, with our power and will

“Nothing is as hard to suppress as the will to be a slave to one’s own pettiness. Gallantly, ceaselessly, quietly, man must fight for inner liberty. Inner liberty depends upon being exempt from domination of things as well as from domination of people.”

“We feel jailed in the confinement of personal needs. The more we indulge in satisfactions, the deeper is our feeling of oppressiveness. To be an iconoclast of idolized needs, to defy our own immoral interests, though they seem to be vital and have long been cherished, we must be able to say no to ourselves in the name of a higher yes.”
 
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Mother Teresa
"Be willing to be alone and to suffer"
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"If you want to help, share something of yourself – not from your abundance – but until it hurts. Give what costs you – make a sacrifice – do without something you like, so you may share what you have saved thus with those who do not even have what they need. Then your giving will be true giving – loving until it hurts... Be God's hands to serve the poor in your spare time, and be His heart to love the poorest of the poor all the time." Mother Teresa, Stories
 
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This is the opinion of Mother Teresa