Every Day Is A New Day

One has to find out for oneself what it means to die;
then there is no fear:   - J.Krishnamurti

How does one find out about this strange thing that we all have to meet one day or another?
Can you die psychologically today, die to everything that you have known?
For instance:
to die to your pleasure, to your attachment, your dependence,
to end it without arguing, without rationalizing,
without trying to find ways and means of avoiding it.
Do you know what it means to die,
not physically, but psychologically, inwardly?
Which means to put an end to that which has continuity;
to put an end to your ambition, because
that's what's going to happen when you die, isn't it?
You can't carry it over and sit next to God!
When you actually die,
you have to end so many things without any argument.
You can't say to death,
"Let me finish my job, let me finish my book,
all the things I have not done,
let me heal the hurts which I have given others" —
you have no time.
So can you find out how to live a life now, today,
in which there is always an ending to everything that you began?
Not in your office of course, but inwardly
to end all the knowledge that you have gathered —
knowledge being your experiences, your memories, your hurts,
the comparative way of living, comparing yourself always with somebody else.
To end all that every day,
so that the next day your mind is fresh and young.
Such a mind can never be hurt,
and that is innocence.
One has to find out for oneself what it means to die;
then there is no fear,
therefore every day is a new day —
and I really mean this, one can do this —
so that your mind and your eyes see life as something totally new.
That is eternity.
That is the quality of the mind that has come upon this timeless state,
because it has known what it means to die every day
to everything it has collected during the day.
Surely, in that there is love.
Love is something totally new every day,
but pleasure is not;
pleasure has continuity.
Love is always new and therefore, it is its own eternity.