To learn about oneself, a living thing, you have to watch, learn anew each minute.
Interpretation
Self-discovery is a continuous process that requires constant observation and reflection.
This quote emphasizes the importance of ongoing self-awareness and attentiveness to one's own thoughts and actions. Krishnamurti suggests that self-understanding is not a one-time event but rather a dynamic experience that unfolds as we engage with our environment and reflect on our experiences in each moment.
In practice
During a personal development workshop, you could share this quote to inspire participants to engage in self-reflection.
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.
Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.
When you hate, the only person that suffers is you because most of the people you hate don't know it and the rest don't care.
If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.
If you read enough biography and history, you learn how people have dealt successfully or unsuccessfully with similar situations or patterns in the past. It doesn't give you a template of answers, but it does help you refine the questions you have to ask yourself.
A part of a healthy conscience is being able to confront consciencelessness. When you teach your daughter, explicitly or by passive rejection, that she must ignore her outrage, that she must be kind and accepting to the point of not defending herself or other people, that she must not rock the boat for any reason, you are NOT strengthening her posocial sense, you are damaging it-and the first person she will stop protecting is herself.
We're only human, we're supposed to make mistakes.
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