Obviously there are certain physical needs: food, clothing, shelter, and all the rest of it. But they never become psychological appetites, things on which the mind builds itself as a centre of desire. Beyond the physical needs, any form of desire—for greatness, for truth, for virtue—becomes a psychological process by which the mind builds the idea of the ‘me’ and strengthens itself at the centre.

Desire And 'Me'

When you see this process, when you are really aware of it without opposition, without a sense of temptation, without resistance, without justifying or judging it, then you will discover that the mind is capable of receiving the new and that the new is never a sensation; therefore it can never be recognized, re-experienced. It is a state of being in which creativeness comes without invitation, without memory; and that is reality.

Going Beyond Desire

If truth can set us free, where do we find it? In 'The First and Last Freedom', Krishnamurti argues that we will not find truth in formal institutions, nor in organised religions and their dogmas, nor in any guru or outside authority; for, according to Krishnamurti, truth can only be realised through self-understanding. Krishnamurti guides us through society's common concerns, such as suffering and fear, love and loneliness, sex and death, the meaning of life, the nature of God, and personal transformation - consistently relating these topics to the essential search for pure truth and perfect freedom.

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When a couple is formed, it is like attaching a string to the violin for example. Both the string and the wooden base is in tension. But it is the balance, tolerance, and acceptance of both the string and the wooden string that makes the violin a complete instrument and makes it possible to bring the best of the sounds. 
The world only listens to the music but it is the complete violin which knows what tension it is going through to make the music. No single component can think that it is main component of the whole instrument. All parts are important.

Relationship Is Like A Violin

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If we could learn to handle our envy correctly, if we think it through with sympathy and skill, then it could play a key role in alerting us to what we genuinely want. Envious thinking can be the gateway to deeper self-knowledge and a profound understanding of our underlying ambitions.

Envy - A Warning To Know Our True Ambitions

We feel envy when someone else has access to an area of happiness that eludes us. The natural response to this feeling is shame; we feel we lack the generosity of spirit to celebrate their achievement. Perhaps we feel guilty for not sufficiently appreciating the lot we have. Yet envy, while uncomfortable, provides us with a message from confused but important parts of our personality about what we should be doing.

Think What Makes You Envious

Instead of trying to repress our envy, we should examine it. Each person we envy is a piece of the jigsaw puzzle that is our future. There is a portrait of a ‘true self’ waiting to be assembled out of the envious hints we receive when we turn the pages of a newspaper or hear updates about the successes of old school friends or witness a friend’s excitement about a new career move. We should calmly ask one essential and redemptive question of all those we envy: ‘What could I learn about here?’

Act On The Emotion?

How Can the infamous emotion, 'Envy', be our friend?

A guide to identifying, nurturing and growing our insight and creativity for more effective thinking. We know that our minds are capable of great things because, every now and then, they come out with a very brilliant idea or two. However, our minds are also tantalisingly unpredictable, spending worryingly large stretches of time idling or distracting themselves. This is a book about how to optimise these beautiful yet fitful instruments so that they can more regularly and generously produce the sort of insights and ideas we need to fulfil our potential – and achieve the contentment we deserve. We learn – among other things – how to grasp fragile and flighty thoughts before they disappear through anxiety and fear, at what times of day to try to work and for how long, how to make use of our boredom and instincts – and how to overcome timid and predictable approaches to the largest problems.

Understand yourself and those around you.

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The quote goes as 'All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.' Any negative person will find an excuse in this quote and say that it is natural to not able to sit quietly. That person will think his inability is as natural like a fish's inability to come out of water. But this quote has a vast capacity to encourage introspection in anyone if we make minor changes.

Correction To Quote By Blaise Pascal

We do not know what Blaise Pascal meant in his original language. Regardless of that, the thing is Man has the ability of finding silence in himself and reflecting that silence in his day-to-day actions. It is just that in the race of the world, he forgot to harness this natural and base state of silence.

Silence Is The Base State

'All of humanity's problems exist because man forgot how to sit quietly in a room alone.' Sitting quietly does not mean inaction when there is a need to act. Sitting quietly means finding peace in oneself in all actions.

Modified Quote

A little correction to a quote by Blaise Pascal

Revisiting Blaise Pascal

You must not think a man has lived long because he has white hair and wrinkles: he has not lived long, just existed long. For suppose you should think that a man had had a long voyage who had been caught in a raging storm as he left harbour, and carried hither and thither and driven round and round in a circle by the rage of opposing winds? He did not have a long voyage, just a long tossing about.

Mistake Of Time Passed As Experience

Often we forget the value addition we can do every moment to our lives. It is not the quantity of time passed that counts to experience but the quality of time. Experience is the sum of time passed weighted by the quality of each moment. Choose wisely from all that life throws at you, what you buy, by spending your time.

Spend Time Judiciously 

We are born under circumstances that would be favourable if we did not abandon them. It was nature’s intention that there should be no need of great equipment for a good life: every individual can make himself happy. External goods are of trivial importance and without much influence in either direction: prosperity does not elevate the sage and adversity does not depress him. For he has always made the effort to rely as much as possible on himself and to derive all delight from himself.

We Have All We Need

Long life is for ones who spend time carefully, wisely. So wisdom is the thing one should thrive for achieving in life to live life better.

Life is long if you know how to use it. From the author of Letters From A Stoic (Epistulae Moralis), comes another brilliant, timeless guide to living well. Written as a moral essay to his friend Paulinus, Seneca's biting words still pack a powerful punch two thousand years later. With its brash rejection of materialism, conventional lifestyles and group-think, On The Shortness of Life is as relevant as ever. Seneca anticipates the modern world. It's a unique expose of how people get caught up in the rat race and how for those stuck in this mindset, enough is never enough. The 'busy' individuals of Rome Seneca makes reference to, those people who are too preoccupied with their careers and maintaining social relationships to fully examine the quality of their lives, sound a lot like ourselves. Includes biographical sketch 'Seneca The Stoic.'

Lucius Annaeus Seneca (often known simply as Seneca or Seneca the Younger); ca. 4 BC – 65 AD) was a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist of the Silver Age of Latin literature. He was tutor and later advisor to emperor Nero, who later forced him to commit suicide for alleged complicity in the Pisonian conspiracy to have him assassinated.

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On The Shortness of Life

Ruptures – those times when we misunderstand each other, where we make wrong assumptions, where we hurt someone – are inevitable in every important, intimate and familial relationship. It is not the rupture that is so important, it is the repair that matters.

Rupture

The way to make repairs in relationships is firstly by working to change your responses, that is, to recognize your triggers and use that knowledge to react in a different way.

Repair

Even if you only realize that you acted wrongly towards your child many moons after it happened, you can still tell them where you got it wrong. It can mean a tremendous amount to a child, even an adult child, when a parent makes a repair.

Acceptance Is Core To Repair Relations

Conflicts are part of relationships, these tell more about people in relationships, and open avenues to personal growth.

More than 1.3 million copies sold worldwide! “A wonderful book”―Richard Osman “If you're determinedly not a self-help kind of reader (like me), make an exception for [this book]. And if you're not a parent, don't dismiss it. The message is one of non-judgmental kindness.”―Vogue (London)   How can we have better relationships? In this instant Sunday Times bestseller, leading psychotherapist Philippa Perry reveals the vital do's and don'ts of relationships. This is a book for us all. Whether you are interested in understanding how your upbringing has shaped you, looking to handle your child's feelings or wishing to support your partner, you will find indispensable information and realistic tips in these pages. Philippa Perry's sane, sage and judgement-free advice is an essential resource on how to have the best possible relationships with the people who matter to you most.

Philippa Perry

The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read

The first regions that are already experiencing clear effects of global warming on a year-to-year basis are the equatorial and tropical regions of the world. What makes this particularly unfortunate is that these include the countries that have been, on the whole, least involved in contributing to the cause.

Climate Change Effects

It is the responsibility of developed countries to play leading roles in mitigating climate change.

“Brilliant and fundamental, this is the necessary book about our prime global emergency. Here you’ll find the facts, the processes, the physics of our complex and changing climate, but delivered with eloquence and urgency. Lawrence Krauss writes with a clarity that transcends mere politics. Prose and poetry were never better bedfellows.” —Ian McEwan, Booker Prize-winning author of Solar and Machines Like Me  &quot;The ideal book for understanding the science of global warming..at once elegant, rigorous, and timely.&quot; — Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prizewinning author of The Sixth Extinction“A brief, brilliant, and charming summary of what physicists know about climate change and how they learned it.” —Sheldon Glashow, Nobel Laureate in Physics, Metcalf Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Boston University“The distinguished scientist Lawrence Krauss turns his penetrating gaze on the most pressing existential threat facing our world: climate change. It is brimming with information lucidly analysed. Such hope as there is lies in science, and a physicist of Dr. Krauss’s imaginative versatility is unusually qualified to offer it.” —Richard Dawkins, author of The Blind Watchmaker and Science in the Soul“Lucid and gripping, this study of the most severe challenge humans have ever faced leads the reader from the basic physics of climate change to recognition of the damage that humans have already caused and on to the prospects that lie ahead if we do not change course soon.” —Noam Chomsky, Laureate Professor, University of Arizona, author of Internationalism or Extinction? “Lawrence Krauss tells the story of climate change with erudition, urgency, and passion. It is our great good luck that one of our most brilliant scientists is also such a gifted writer. This book will change the way we think about the future.” —Jennifer Finney Boylan, author of Good Boy and She’s Not There“Everything on climate change that I’ve seen is either dumbed down and bossy or written for other climate scientists. I’ve been looking for a book that can let me, a layperson, understand the science. This book does just what I was looking for. It is important.” —Penn Jillette, Magician, author of Presto! and God, No!“The renowned physicist Lawrence Krauss makes the science behind one of the most important issues of our time accessible to all.” —Richard C. J. Somerville, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego“Lawrence Krauss is a fine physicist, a talented writer, and a scientist deeply engaged with public affairs. His book deserves wide readership. The book’s eloquent exposition of the science and the threats should enlighten all readers and motivate them to an urgent concern about our planet’s future.” —Lord Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal, former president of the Royal Society, author of On the Future: Prospects for Humanity

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The Physics of Climate Change

This very moment you are what existence wanted you to be. Do not miss! Enjoy it!

Be Yourself

We should recognise the potential within and for that we should stop pretending to be something or someone.

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If you test, the world will not disappoint in one thing for sure and that is - nobody cares about what you care more than you do. Accept this and take responsibility of oneself. Stop testing the world because it will strengthen your resolve to blame your failures on others and this will do no good to you on your journey. Failures are nothing but signposts of turning to new ways of thinking.

Responsibility Of Ourselves

This a Latin phrase and it means 'Love of Fate'. It means accepting the happenings in one life and not categorising them as good or bad. It is about trying to see the chances of one's growth in every situation.

Amor Fati

Start practicing writing short notes about your feelings. It is better way to order your thoughts which are gushing all corners of your mind. Try to make it as detailed as possible. Note: Do not share it. These notes are meant to be an outlet for your thoughts and not for anyone else, like sticky notes. You use them till the purpose is done and then you dispose them.Use the unstable energy in something creative. No hobby is inferior unless it harms others.

Take A Step Back

I think personal development is an utterly alone process. Blaming others for our failures is like running away from the responsibility towards our own happiness.

Why do people blame others?

Whether you are going to worship continually a mere picture, or worship the reality of that picture, must, of course, be left to the individual. I do not use mine to convince you of the truth of that picture being alive. To me it is alive. Though I used to worship that picture, I was not satisfied in the mere worshipping. I wanted to get behind the frame of that picture, to look through the eyes, think through the mind of that picture. I was not satisfied, and because of my dissatisfaction, because of my discontentment, because of my sorrows, I was able to identify myself with the picture.

Search For The Ideal Behind The Idol

We often forget the ideal behind the idol we worship because of our tendency to get stuck in routine. Do we really mean to connect to the divine in all prayers or is it just a way to fit in society?

The First and Last Freedom

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On The Shortness of Life

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