I wonder why we gossip? is it because it reveals others to us?
And why should others be revealed to us? Why do you want to
know others? Why this extraordinary concern about others?
First of all, why do we gossip? It is a form of restlessness, is it
not? Like worry, it is an indication of a restless mind. Why this
desire to interfere with others, to know what others are doing,
saying? It is a very superficial mind that gossips, isn't it? - an
inquisitive mind which is wrongly directed. The questioner
seems to think that others are revealed to him by his being
concerned with them - with their doings, with their thoughts,
with their opinions. But do we know others if we don't know
ourselves? Can we judge others, if we do not know the way of
our own thinking, the way we act, the way we behave? Why
this extraordinary concern over others? Is it not an escape,
really, this desire to find out what others are thinking and
feeling and gossiping about? Doesn't it offer an escape from
ourselves? Is there not in it also the desire to interfere with
others' lives? Isn't our own life sufficiently difficult, sufficiently
complex, sufficiently painful, without dealing with others',
interfering with others'? Is there time to think about others in
that gossipy, cruel, ugly manner? Why do we do this? You know,
everybody does it. Practically everybody gossips about
somebody else. Why?

Krishnamurti
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Buddha's Writings

"Looking for peace is like looking for a turtle with a mustache: You won'y be able to find it. But when your heart is ready, peace will come looking for you."

"There is good as well as bad karma. Whatever happiness we enjoy is not less a consequence of the acts and thoughts of previous lives, than is any misfortune that comes to us. Every good thought and act contributes to the evolution of the Buddha- nature within each of us."