To respond to any challenge according to one’s conditioning is merely to expand the prison, or to decorate its bars. - Jiddu Krishnamurti

You cannot reconcile creativeness with technical achievement. You may be perfect in playing the piano, and not be creative. You may be able to handle color, to put paint on canvas most cleverly, and not be a creative painter...having lost the song, we pursue the singer. We learn from the singer the technique of song, but there is no song; and I say the song is essential, the joy of singing is essential. When the joy is there, the technique can be built up from nothing; you will invent your own technique, you won't have to study elocution or style. When you have, you see, and the very seeing of beauty is an art.

Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.

When we suffer we have made it into a personal affair. We shut out all the suffering of mankind.