It is only in alert silence that truth can be.
Interpretation
Truth is revealed in moments of quiet contemplation rather than in noise and chaos.
This quote by Jiddu Krishnamurti emphasizes the importance of silence and presence in discovering truth. In a world filled with distractions and constant noise, it suggests that genuine understanding and insight can only arise when we pause and listen attentively, allowing for deeper introspection and clarity to emerge.
In practice
A speaker at a mindfulness workshop might use this quote to encourage participants to embrace silence.
The following of authority is the denial of intelligence. [It] may help us temporarily to cover up our difficulties and problems; but to avoid a problem is only to intensify it, and in the process, self-knowledge and freedom are abandoned.
In seeking comfort, we generally find a quiet corner in life where there is a minimum of conflict, and then we are afraid to step out of that seclusion.
If you listen through the screen of your desires, then you obviously listen to your own voice; you are listening to your own desires.
If you have this extraordinary thing going in your life, then it is everything; then you become the teacher, the disciple, the neighbour, the beauty of the cloud - you are all that, and that is love.
Meditation is one of the greatest arts in life - perhaps the greatest, and one cannot possibly learn it from anybody, that is the beauty of it.
All of us have been trained by education and environment to seek personal gain and security and to fight for ourselves. Though we cover it over with pleasant phrases, we have been educated for various professions within a system which is based on exploitation and acquisitive fear.
In the holy solipsism of the young Now I can't walk thru a city street w/out eying each single pedestrian. I feel thier vibe thru my skin, the hair on my neck --- it rises.
I am a Muslim, because it's a religion that teaches you an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. It teaches you to respect everybody, and treat everybody right. But it also teaches you if someone steps on your toe, chop off their foot. And I carry my religious axe with me all the time.
It is not an act of kindness to treat animals respectfully. It is an act of justice.
Your state is not at all to be measured by the opposition that sin makes to you, but by the opposition you make to it.
When I was a boy, I'd hide under the kitchen table and wind string around the chairs. I have a sense now that I am pulling on those threads. The more I pull, the more it comes unraveled.
Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.
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