What Are You Doing With Your Life

One of the greatest thinkers of the age' The Dalai Lama 'One of the five saints of the 20th century' - TIME magazine 'Krishnamurti influenced me profoundly' - Deepak Chopra Who are you? What are you? What do you want from life? One of the world's great philosophical teachers, Krishnamurti, offers his inspiring wisdom on many of life's hurdles from relationships and love, to anxiety and loneliness. He answers such questions as 'What is the significance of life?' and 'How do I live life to the full?' to reveal the best way of being true to yourself. Read by millions from all walks of life, Krishnamurti shows us there is no path, no higher authority, no guru to follow, and that ultimately it is our own responsibility as to how we live our lives. 

• Don't you want to find out what you really love to do in life, instead of merely aiming at a career?
• Are ambition and competition really necessary in order to live in this modern world?
• What is your response to the problems of society, such as poverty, corruption, violence?
• What is your relationship to your parents and teachers based on? ...Submission? Rebellion? Understanding?
• What do love and marriage mean to you?
• How do you deal with your own psychological problems like boredom, jealousy, hurt, pleasure, fear, and sorrow?

J. Krishnamurti’s investigation of these questions constitutes a most original and authentic contribution to the educational thought of the twentieth century. In talking to students and holding discussions with them in different parts of the world, what he sought to impart was not a ‘philosophy’ of life but rather the art of observing directly one’s life.

What are you Doing with your Life? brings together excerpts from Krishnamurti’s books, and is the first anthology of its kind that offer the young a systematic approach to his vision of education and life.