Pay attention to episodes in nature that kindle an inner spark of awe and admiration. You don't have to discuss it with another being. If it has meaning to you, it's valid.

Wayne Dyer in "Your Ultimate Calling" page 23

Understanding comes when you investigate, when you enquire, when you search out, which requires care, consideration, thought, affection.

Krishnamurti,  Bombay 13th March, 1948

The Religious Man

But the religious man is he who, through self-knowledge, begins to discover his conditioning and to break through it; and the breaking through is not a matter of time.

Krishnamurti Poona 6th Public Talk 24th September 1958

Remembrance

The remembrance of yesterday only darkens today, and comparison prevents perception. How lovely were those red and yellow flowers ! Loveliness is not of time. We carry our burdens from day to day, and there is never a day without the shadow of many yesterdays. Our days are one continuous movement, yesterday mingling with today and tomorrow; there is never an ending. We are frightened of ending; but without ending, how can there be the new? Without death, how can there be life? And how little we know of either!

Krishnamurti in "Commentaries on Living Series I" Satisfaction

How free would you be if you just didn't care what others thought or felt about you?

Scott Shaw

Have nothing

If you want to have the whole world, have nothing. If you are always busy doing something, you cannot enjoy the world.

Tao Te Ching trans. John R Mabry

Only a quiet mind can understand

It is only when the mind is silent that we can understand anything. If I want to understand somebody, my mind must be quiet, not chattering, not prejudiced, not having innumerable opinions and experiences, for they prevent the observation and the understanding. One can see directly that it is only when the mind is very quiet that there is a possibility of clarity;

Krishnamurti