The perfect life is not a life without pain and suffering. At best, the perfect life will always suck a little bit. Yearning for happiness and blessings only? You never gonna make it happily through life.

If there is one way out, if there is a perfect life, philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti has some interesting ideas about it.

“No way out,” pretty much sums up the basic rule of the perfect life. If you’re ready for this realistic approach to life, Jiddu Krishnamurti offers great insights. (You can find books of and on Jiddu Krishnamurti on Amazon and eBay.)

With a calm voice and mind, Krishnamurti tears down dreams and illusions, only to make perfect sense of an existence that was never meant to be painless and pain-free. By accepting pain and failure, one overcomes pain and failure.