I don't mind what happens. That is the essence of inner freedom. _x000D_ _x000D_ It is a timeless spiritual truth: release attachment to outcomes, _x000D_ _x000D_ deep inside yourself, you'll feel good no matter what.
Interpretation
True inner freedom comes from letting go of expectations and attachments to outcomes.
This quote by Jiddu Krishnamurti emphasizes the importance of inner freedom, which is achieved by releasing our attachment to specific outcomes in life. By cultivating this mindset, one can maintain a sense of peace and contentment regardless of external circumstances, suggesting that happiness is ultimately an internal state rather than one based on external validation or success.
In practice
During a motivational speech about finding peace in uncertain times.
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.
If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to my prince, for I am first a man and only then a Frenchman... because I am necessarily a man, and only accidentally am I French.
Coffee makes us severe, and grave and philosophical.
Evil is not any superhuman, but it is HUMAN.
Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.
Sabotage did not involve loss of life, and it offered the best hope for future race relations. Bitterness would be kept to a minimum and, if the policy bore fruit, democratic government could become a reality.
The values of the world we inhabit and the people we surround ourselves with have a profound effect on who we are.
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