Begin where you are. Read every word, every phrase, every paragraph of the mind, as it operates through thought.
Interpretation
Start from your current situation and understand your thoughts deeply.
This quote emphasizes the importance of self-awareness and mindfulness in the process of personal growth. Jiddu Krishnamurti suggests that one should begin their journey of understanding from their present reality, encouraging individuals to engage deeply with their thoughts and feelings as they navigate their mental landscape.
In practice
In a motivational speech about personal development.
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.
Presumption must be quenched even more than a fire.
My eyes are dim with childish tears, My heart is idly stirred, For the same sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard.
I let go of all expectations. People, places and things are free to be themselves, and I am free to be me.
All new ideas begin in a non-conforming mind that questions some tenet of the conventional wisdom.
Let not our proposal be disregarded on the score of our youth.
We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.
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