“To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.”
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Walter Benjamin 70
German literary critic, philosopher and social critic (1892… 1892–1940Related quotes
“To understand oneself requires patience, tolerant awareness”
"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
Posthumous publications, The Collected Works
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.
“One cannot be humble and aware of oneself at the same time.”
Source: A Circle of Quiet
“Everyone must become their own person, however frightful that may be.”
Old Mortality (1884).
“In order to be happy oneself it is necessary to make at least one other person happy.”
“Here to lose oneself forever is eternal happiness.”
The Exemplar, The Life of the Servant
Context: In the darkness beyond distinct manner of existing, all multiplicity disappears and the spirit loses what is its own. It disappears with regard to its own activity. This is the highest goal and the 'where' beyond boundaries. In this the spirituality of all spirits ends. Here to lose oneself forever is eternal happiness. To lose oneself forever is eternal happiness
