Monday, January 31, 2011

We know no love - JKOnline Daily Quotes

We know no love - JKOnline Daily Quotes


We know no love

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Our problem is, is it not, that our lives are empty, and we know no love; we know sensations, we know advertising, we know sexual demands, but there is no love. And how is this emptiness to be transformed, how is one to find that flame without smoke? Surely, that is the question, is it not? - On love and loneliness, First Talk in Bombay 1950

Simplicity

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We seem to think that simplicity is merely an outward expression, a withdrawal - having few possessions, wearing a loincloth, having no home, putting on few clothes, having a small bank account. Surely, that is not simplicity. That is merely an outward show. And it seems to me that simplicity is essential, but simplicity can come into being only when we begin to understand the significance of self-knowledge. - Ojai, California, July 1949 - Fourth Talk in The Oak Grove

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