Truth is something which you must see immediately — and to see something clearly you must give your heart and your mind and your whole being to it immediately.
Interpretation
Truth requires your full attention and commitment for clear understanding.
This quote emphasizes the necessity of dedicating oneself entirely—both emotionally and intellectually—to perceive truth clearly. Jiddu Krishnamurti suggests that simply noticing something is not enough; true understanding demands a total investment of one's being, indicating that the pursuit of truth is both an urgent and profound endeavor.
In practice
In a motivational speech about self-discovery and personal growth.
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 you do not know the blessings you have when you have them, then Allah will teach you about them by taking them away from you
Great works are done when one is not calculating and thinking.
Every difficulty in life presents us with an opportunity to turn inward and to invoke our own submerged inner resources. The trials we endure can and should introduce us to our strengths.
Wait with patience and love and strength. If helpers are not ready now, they will come in time. Why should we be in a hurry? The real working force of all great work is in its almost unperceived beginnings.
A man must not only have faith but intellectual faith too. To make a man take up everything and believe it, would be to make him a lunatic.
You are always a valuable, worthwhile human being - not because anybody says so, not because you're successful, not because you make a lot of money - but because you decide to believe it and for no other reason.
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