Sometimes I read books unrelated to sustainability

... hard to believe, isn't it?

I cannot remember how I came across this book, I think I read about the author in one of the blogs in my RSS feed and looked him up on Amazon. His name is Jiddu Krishnamurti and he is a philosopher from India. The book I read was called Think on These Things. It's a collection of questions from his students about everything from happiness, to meditation, from freedom to companionship, and each question is followed by Krishnamurti's answer.

Here are a few quotes I liked from the book:

"The real student is studying, learning, inquiring,
exploring, not just until he is twenty or twenty-five, but throughout
life." (about the duties of a student)

"Don't carry over your worries from day to day, from
hour to hour, from moment to moment; let them all go, and you will see that out of this freedom there comes an extraordinary life that includes both living and
dying." (on fear of death)

"To love is to have that extraordinary feeling of
affection without asking anything in return." (about the simplicity of love)

It's not often we have the opportunity to think on such things, the basic values that shape our lives. Thinking about these things helps you realize what is important and what is not, and also ask yourself why some things are important. Krishnamurti challenges us to ask why more often.