Things may not be easy, but more one asks of life, the more fearful and painful it becomes. To live simply uninfluenced...to be without varying moods and demands is not easy, but without deep quite life all things are futile
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Some of the simple, profound and yet powerful enlightening quotes from the book "Happy is the Man who is Nothing" by Jiddu Krishnamurti. As stated by Pupul Jayakar in this book it is the compilation of the letters written to a young friend who came to him wounded in body and mind. Letters written between 1948-1960.
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