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"The rich have a peculiar atmosphere of their own. However cultured, unobtrusive, ancient, and polished, the rich have an impenetrable and assured aloofness, that inviolable certainty and hardness that are difficult to break down. They are not the possessors of wealth, but are possessed by wealth, which is worse than death. Their conceit is philanthropy; they think they are trustees of their wealth; they have charities, create endowments; they are the makers, the builders, the givers. They build churches, temples, but their god is the god of their gold. With so much poverty and degradation, one must have a very thick skin to be rich. Some of them come to question, to argue, to find reality. For the rich, as for the poor, it is extremely difficult to find reality. The poor crave to be rich and powerful, and the rich are already caught in the net of their own action; and yet they believe and venture near. They speculate, not only upon the market, but upon the ultimate. They play with both, but are successful only with what is in their hearts. Their beliefs and ceremonies, their hopes and fears, have nothing to do with reality, for their hearts are empty. The greater the outward show, the greater the inward poverty." — Krishnamurti From Commentaries on Living, Volume 1

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