Love is the most practical thing in the world. To love, to be kind, not to be greedy, not to be ambitious, not to be influenced by people but to think for yourself-these are all very practical things, and they will bring about a practical, happy society.
Interpretation
Love emphasizes practicality through kindness and self-awareness.
In this quote, Jiddu Krishnamurti highlights the significance of love and kindness as fundamental practical virtues that contribute to an overall happy society. He suggests that genuine love is grounded in self-thought rather than ambition or greed, advocating for a life guided by compassion, which fosters collective well-being.
In practice
This quote can be used in a speech about the importance of empathy in society.
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.
Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.
I don't care if Margot is a Dame of the British Empire or older than myself. For me she represents eternal youth; there is an absolute musical quality in her beautiful body and phrasing. Because we are sincere and gifted, an intense abstract love is born between us every time we dance together.
Now he discovered that secret from which one never quite recovers, that even in the most perfect love one person loves less profoundly than the other. There may be two equally good, equally gifted, equally beautiful, but theremay never be two that love one another equally well.
Ah! What pleasure it must be to a woman to suffer for the one she loves!
Heβs dozed off again, but I kiss him awake, which seems to startle him. Then he smiles as if heβd be happy to lie there gazing at me forever.
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