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"A man who is seeking for realization is not only going round searching for his spectacles without realizing that they are on his nose all the time, but also were he not actually looking through them he would not be able to see what he is looking for!" - Ask the Awakened by Wei Wu Wei

"Are you still thinking, looking, living, as from an imaginary phenomenal center? As long as you do that you can never recognize your freedom." - Open Secret by Wei Wu Wei

"For us, pleasure is extraordinarily important. We do things out of pleasure. We run away from anything that is painful, and we reduce things to the values, to the criteria of pleasure. So pleasure plays an extraordinarily important part in our life, as an ideal, as a man who gives up this so-called worldly life to find another kind of life—it is still the basis of pleasure. Or when a man says, ‘I must help the poor’, and indulges in social reform, it is still an act of pleasure; he may cover it up by saying ‘service’, ‘goodness’, and all the rest of it; but it is still a movement of the mind that is seeking pleasure or escaping from anything that causes a disturbance which it calls pain. If you observe yourself, this is what we are doing in daily life, every moment." - J.  Krishnamurti

I hate to admit it, but as usual Krishnamurti is on to something.  If I look deeply and clearly at myself from moment to moment, the vast majority of pursuits revolve around seeking more pleasure or avoiding pain. Do others find this to be true as well?