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To understand the beauty and the extraordinary nature of death, there must be freedom from the known. In dying to the known is the beginning of the understanding of death, because then the mind is made fresh, new, and there is no fear. Therefore one can enter into the state called death. So, from the beginning to the end, life and death are one. The wise man understands time, thought, and sorrow, and only he can understand death. The mind that is dying each minute, never accumulating, never gathering experience, is innocent, and is therefore in a constant state of love.
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~ J. Krishnamurti, from a talk on July 28th 1964
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