“If you have the courage to touch life for the first time, you will never know what hit you. Everything man has thought, felt and experienced is gone, and nothing is put in its place.”

—  U.G. Krishnamurti, book Mind is a Myth

Source: Mind is a Myth (1987), Ch. 4: There Is Nothing To Understand

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