Compassion being action without motive, without self-interest, without any sense of fear, without any sense of pleasure.
Interpretation
True compassion is selfless and free from any ulterior motives or desires.
In this quote, Jiddu Krishnamurti emphasizes the nature of true compassion, suggesting that it is not driven by personal gain, fear, or pleasure. Instead, it is a pure form of action that arises from a genuine interest in the well-being of others, highlighting the importance of selflessness in compassionate acts.
In practice
This quote can be shared in a talk about the importance of selfless acts in community service.
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.
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The trace left behind is substituted for the practice. It exhibits the (voracious) property that the geographical system has of being able to transform action into legibility, but in doing so it causes a way of being in the world to be forgotten.
If you say: I believed in God, I trusted God and He didn't come through - You only trusted God to meet your agenda.
Discussion is impossible with someone who claims not to seek the truth, but already to possess it.
I found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.
If He had not known with certainty that He would be Master over sin and that out of evil would evolve the noblest display of His own glory, He would not have permitted it to enter the world.
The conservative is the one who understands his own society from within and loves and defends it.
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