Context: You must live with sorrow, not morbidly, not in self-pity, not in isolation, not in resentment. You must live with it as you would a dangerous pet, ever watching it, trying to understand its ways, its intentions, following it with alert awareness, being open to its intimations. Great pliability is needed, which is denied when thought-feeling is anchored to a belief, a theory, an experience, a memory. It is this simple and uncontending pliability of the mind and heart that brings peace and joy, love and understanding. Living with sorrow, we get tired and numb. Weariness and numbness indicate a desire to be free from sorrow, to get rid of it. We exhaust our thought-feeling in seeking comfort, which brings about thoughtlessness, deadening our feelings. Comfort is a subtle poison to be avoided by those who would understand and transcend sorrow. Suffering, when allowed to mature, finds its own release.
Krishnamurti, The World Within
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