...he bright-eyed goddess, Athene, was pleased that she was the god he prayed to before all the others. She put strength in his shoulders and knees, and... ...e put strength in his shoulders and knees, and set in his heart the daring of a mosquito, which, though constantly brushed away from a man's skin, sti... ...ushed away from a man's skin, still insists on biting him for the pleasure of human blood." --The Iliad Homer Book I: P... ...st sleep for such knicknacks. He didn't feel that he should be subject to listening to her palaver in Canada. His nod was that of acquiescence the wa... ...ithout any specific gestures or words sent to him, he nonetheless felt her listlessness and knew her anguish. He knew the 4000 baht that many indigen... ...eg, or charm an avuncular affection from this remote individual who wasn't related to them by blood? He began to stare at the driver and a boy wh... ...Here he was with a new family--a mosaic of complete strangers who were not related to him nor were they relating to him or much to each other. Still,... ...uility darts that took him to an ethereal, unearthly peace exempt from the conflicts of consciousness but also from assembling understanding from the ... ...tand the premise of his life that constituted a compromise of the internal conflicts of the mind. But he also wanted peace of mind and he sank in wit...

This book is about an individual in dire poverty who makes his way in Bangkok from a sidewalk restaurant worker to a famous prostitute painter

...The Natural State In the Words of U.G. Krishnamurti Peter Maverick Introduction 1972-... ...1990—Various Places Publisher's Note When I read the manuscript of Peter's book, it was as though U.G. was talking through the pages. It w... ...ok, it was as though U.G. was talking through the pages. It was wonderful to hear him without all the questions and interjections of the people who ... ...y one when I read his first book, I agreed with him totally on everything—to my surprise. I read him more—it was the same. It was as though he was t... ...lock, and this little boy of five, six or seven years—I don't know—had to listen to all that crap. So much so that by the time I reached my seventh ... ...s in the making for me. Very strange things happened to me, but I never related those things to liberation or freedom or moksha, because by that t... ...ich thought has decided is beautiful. There is no one directing. As for listening, when you leave the sense of hearing alone all that is there is t... ...ome conscious of your breathing. Your breath and thought are very closely related. That's why you want to control your breath. And that, in a way, i... ...y movement is not something which you can experience. What I am saying conflicts with your logical framework. You are using logic to continue that...

...A compilation of quotes by U.G. Krishnamurti that can alter your life. Someone once said to his daughter who had met U.G., "Damned be the day you met this man; your life will never be the same." Whether we feel cursed or blessed, our comin...