"You are never alone because you are full of all the memories, all the
conditioning, all the mutterings of yesterday; your mind is never clear of all the
rubbish it has accumulated. To be alone you must die to the past. When you are
alone, totally alone, not belonging to any family, any nation, any culture, any
particular continent, there is that sense of being an outsider. The man who is
completely alone in this way is innocent and it is this innocence that frees the
mind from sorrow.
We carry about with us the burden of what thousands of people have said and
the memories of all our misfortunes. To abandon all that totally is to be alone,
and the mind that is alone is not only innocent but young—not in time or age, but
young, innocent, alive at whatever age—and only such a mind can see that which
is truth and that which is not measurable by words."

j. krishnamurti




















(j.patten.2016)