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Language English Media type Print (hardcover) Originally published 1987 ISBN 978-0-575-04060-1 | 4.6/5 Goodreads Publication date 1987 Pages 134 pp (first edition) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country United Kingdom and United States Subject Philosophy, autobiography Publishers Victor Gollancz Ltd (UK), HarperCollins (US) Countries United Kingdom, United States of America Similar Works by Jiddu Krishnamurti, Philosophy books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Krishnamurti to himself you are always a guest on this earth
Krishnamurti to Himself: His Last Journal is a book based on a spoken diary of Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986). It was originally published in 1987.
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About the work
The text was transcribed from audiotape recordings made by Krishnamurti at his home in Ojai, California; the recordings took place between February 1983 and March 1984. The transcription was minimally edited by Mary Lutyens, a Krishnamurti biographer and longtime close friend.
The work was reputedly prompted by the success of a previous diary, Krishnamurti's Journal. However, due to his advanced age, Krishnamurti opted to dictate the new diary instead of writing it, using a portable tape recorder.
In the foreword by Mary Lutyens it is stated, "The reader gets very close to Krishnamurti in these pieces – almost, it seems at moments, into his very consciousness. ... The gist of Krishnamurti's teaching is here, and the descriptions of nature with which he begins most of the pieces may for many, who regard him as a poet as well as a philosopher, quieten their whole being so that they become intuitively receptive to what follows."