When you see the beauty somewhere, when you fall in love with something, the next impulse that comes in you is to possess it, have it; and, when you have it, it looses all its significance.
— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
When you see a sunset, in that moment of beauty there is a spontaneous, creative joy. [...]
“You cannot be worldly and yet be pure in the pursuit of Reality. Our difficulty is we want both, the burning appetites and the serenity of Reality. You must abandon the one or the other; you cannot have both. You cannot indulge and yet be alert; to be keenly aware there must be freedom from [...]
A questioner asks J. Krishnamurti, “I want to help people, serve them. What is the best way?”
And Krishnamurti replies,
The best way is to begin to understand yourself and change yourself. In this desire to help another, to serve another, there is hidden pride, conceit. If you love, you serve. The clamour to help is born [...]
