Question: Why am I never satisfied with anything? Krishnamurti: A little girl is asking this question, and I am sure she has not been prompted. At her tender age she wants to know why she is never satisfied. What do you grown-up people say? It is...
A restless genius From Piazza del Popolo, I climbed the many steps of the Pincian Hill. Before my trip to Rome, a sculptor friend of mine, who had a passion for the painter Caravaggio and had developed an interest in guilt, suggested I go to see...
At some level we know that the more we focus on the self and our small, singular story, the more lost we can become. Now imagine for a moment an alternative view of the world, which may be very difficult for many. Imagine now that you...
You are continuously controlling through the head. The 'heady' people always miss. Get deeper into your being, move towards the heart. And the heart is not the ultimate, you have to move even deeper than the heart. And then you come to your navel -...
You have sent a letter to me through the hand of a "friend" of yours, as you call him. And in your very next sentence you warn me not to discuss with him all the matters that concern you, saying that even you yourself are...
The very qualities that I do have which do not deserve reproach are useless, I find, in this century. The affability of my manners would be called slackness and weakness; my faith and my conscience would be thought over-scrupulous and superstitious; my frankness and freedom,...
What sort of man was this urbane philosopher? “I am a beau in nothing but my books,” was the way Adam Smith once described himself, proudly showing off his treasured library to a friend. He was certainly not a handsome man. A medallion profile shows us...
STEP THREE: ISOLATE THE CUE About a decade ago, a psychologist at the University of Western Ontario tried to answer a question that had bewildered social scientists for years: Why do some eyewitnesses of crimes misremember what they see, while other recall events accurately? The recollections of eyewitnesses, of course,...
The difficult thing about studying the science of habits is that most people, when they hear about this field of research, want to know the secret formula for quickly changing any habit. If scientists have discovered how these patterns work, then it stands to reason that they must have...
Why did Servius Tullius build a temple of Small Fortune, whom they call Brevis? Was it because he was of a mean original and in a low condition, being born of a captive woman, and by fortune came to be king of Rome? Or did...
