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'GOSSIP AND WORRY'
"How oddly similar are gossip and worry. They are both the
outcome of a restless mind. A restless mind must have a changing
variety of expressions and actions, it must be occupied; it must
have ever increasing sensations, passing interests, and gossip
contains the elements of all these. Gossip is the very antithesis of
intensity and earnestness. To talk about another, pleasantly or
viciously, is an escape from oneself, and escape is the cause of
restlessness. Escape in its very nature is restless. Concern over the
affairs of others seems to occupy most people, and this concern
shows itself in the reading of innumerable magazines and
newspapers with their gossip columns, their accounts of murders,
divorces and so on".

J Krishnamurti
Commentaries on Living Series I
Chapter 3 "gossip and Worry"