"Fifth Talk in The Oak Grove, 11 June 1944" http://www.jkrishnamurti.org/krishnamurti-teachings/view-text.php?tid=173&chid=4529&w=%22To+understand+oneself+requires+patience%22&s=Text, J. Krishnamurti Online, JKO Serial No. 440611, Vol. III, p. 219 <br class="br">Posthumous publications, The Collected Works <br class="br">Context: To understand oneself requires patience, tolerant awareness; the self is a book of many volumes which you cannot read in a day, but when once you begin to read, you must read every word, every sentence, every paragraph for in them are the intimations of the whole. The beginning of it is the ending of it. If you know how to read, supreme wisdom is to be found.
Helen Keller book The Story of My Life
Part III, Ch. 2: Personality http://books.google.com/books?id=zev1dMhB7C4C&q=Toleration+&quot;is+the+greatest+gift+of+the+mind+it+requires+the+same+effort+of+the+brain+that+it+takes+to+balance+oneself+on+a+bicycle&quot;&pg=PA295#v=onepage <br class="br">The Story of My Life (1903)
Xi Jinping (1953) General Secretary of the Communist Party of China and paramount leader of China
As quoted in "China’s Xi pledges peaceful ties with Taiwan in meeting" http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2013/02/26/2003555737 in Taipei Times (26 February 2013). <br class="br">2010s
“To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.”
Walter Benjamin (1892–1940) German literary critic, philosopher and social critic (1892-1940)
“One cannot be humble and aware of oneself at the same time.”
Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007) American writer
Source: A Circle of Quiet
“The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.”
Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880) French writer (1821–1880)
