"We carry about us the burden of what thousands of people have said and the memories of all our misfortunes. To abandon all that is to be alone, and th...
To understand the immeasurable, the mind must be extraordinarily quiet, still.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti ~
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To understand the immeasurable, the mind must be extraordinarily quiet, still.
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