In the space which thought creates around itself there is no love. This space divides man from man, and in it is all the becoming, the battle of life, the agony and fear. Meditation is the ending of this space, the ending of the me.
Interpretation
The quote suggests that individual thoughts create a barrier that prevents love and connection among people.
Jiddu Krishnamurti emphasizes that the mental constructs and separations we create through our thoughts lead to isolation, conflict, and suffering in life. He asserts that true love and unity can only be achieved by transcending these thought-created divisions, which can be accomplished through meditation that allows us to dissolve the 'self' and connect with others more deeply.
In practice
In a discussion about mindfulness, one could use this quote to highlight the importance of meditation in fostering love and connection.
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.
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Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.
There is still much debate about whether torture has been effective in eliciting information - the assumption being, apparently, that if it is effective, then it may be justified.
Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.
Experience having long taught me the reasonableness of mutual sacrifices of opinion among those who are to act together for any common object, and the expediency of doing what good we can; when we cannot do all we would wish.
The U.S. should worry about the effects of its polices on the rest of the world. We would like to live in a world where countries take into account the effect of their policies on other countries and do what is right, broadly, rather than what is just right given the circumstances of that country.
The aim of life is to be fully born, though its tragedy is that most of us die before we are thus born.
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