Krishna once said, “He would hover around a word like a bee buzzing around a chosen flower, admiring it from every possible angle. You would notice that he is very particular about his choice of words, for he cares deeply about verbal communication. If you’re not familiar with the great man or any of his works, then it would be a good idea to listen to some of his talks. However, we are still going to persist with it and find a reasonable pathway. This is why the question - how should one read Jiddu Krishnamurti’s books and in what order? - is not as straightforward as it may seem. One has to constantly reflect and assess the validity of a statement - which is not something that every reader is comfortable with. One of the major challenges I found when I first started reading Jiddu Krishnamurti was that it is very difficult to contain him, label him or put his ideas into any category. It requires great amount of patience, attention and persistence. If you know anything about Krishnamurti, you’d know that it is not easy to read or follow him. That is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing, and dance, and write poems, and read… (and especially read Jiddu Krishnamurti’s books.) After all, this is life, all this is life. You must live your life fully, he would tell you, and not only live it in fragments. “You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it,” said Jiddu Krishnamurti, the great Indian philosopher.
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