Quotations

"Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows."

— Jack Kornfield, American vipassana teacher, born 1945

"I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it."

— Sandy Koufax, American baseball player, born 1935

"Nonviolence is not some exalted regimen that can be practiced only by a monk or a master; it also pertains to the way one interacts with a child, vacuums a carpet, or waits in line.
Whenever we separate ourselves from a given situation (for example, through inattentiveness, negative judgments, or impatience), we "kill" something valuable: people, things, one's own composure, the moment itself.
These small-scale incidences of violence accumulate relentlessly, are multiplied on a social level, and become a source of the large-scale violence that can sweep down upon us so suddenly.. One need not wait until war is declared and bullets are flying to work for peace. A more constant and equally urgent battle must be waged each day against the forces of one's own anger, carelessness, and self-absorption."

— Kenneth Kraft, Professor of Buddhist Studies, born 1949

"The more minimal the art, the more maximum the explanation."

— Hilton Kramer, American art critic, born 1928

"When at last I came upon the right book, the feeling was violent: it blew open a hole in me that made life more dangerous because I couldn't control what came through it."

— Nicole Krauss, American author, born 1974

"Crying is one of the highest devotional songs. One who knows crying knows spiritual practice. If you can cry with a pure heart, nothing else compares to such a prayer. Crying includes all the principles of yoga."

— Sawami Kripalvananda, Master of kundalini yoga, born 1913

"Where is the delusion when truth is known? Where is the disease when the mind is clear? Where is death when the Breath is controlled? Therefore surrender to Yoga."

— Tirumalai Krishnamacharya, Indian yoga instructor, born 1888

"If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation."

— Jiddu Krishnamurti, Indian-American philosopher, born 1895

"Have you not noticed that love is silence? It may be while holding the hand of another, or looking lovingly at a child, or taking in the beauty of an evening. Love has no past or future, and so it is with this extraordinary state of silence."

— Jiddu Krishnamurti, Indian-American philosopher, born 1895

"Do you know that even when you look at a tree and say, `That is an oak tree', or `that is a banyan tree', the naming of the tree, which is botanical knowledge, has so conditioned your mind that the word comes between you and actually seeing the tree? To come in contact with the tree you have to put your hand on it and the word will not help you to touch it."

— Jiddu Krishnamurti, Indian-American philosopher, born 1895

"If God made anything better than women, I think he kept it for himself."

— Kris Kristofferson, American singer, born 1936

"The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will not ‘get over’ the loss of a loved one; you will learn to live with it. You will heal and you will rebuild yourself around the loss you have suffered. You will be whole again but you will never be the same. Nor should you be the same nor would you want to."

— Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Swiss-American psychiatrist, born 1926

"Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings."

— Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Swiss-American psychiatrist, born 1926

"I read. I order books from the States. I literally go into bookstores, close my eyes, and take things off the shelf. If I don't like the book after a bit, I don't finish it. But I like to be surprised."

— Stanley Kubrick, American director, born 1928