If you find out what it is you love to do and give your whole life to it, then there is no contradiction, and in that state your being is your doing.
Interpretation
Discovering your passion and dedicating yourself to it leads to a harmonious life.
This quote by Jiddu Krishnamurti emphasizes the importance of identifying what you love to do and fully committing to it. By aligning your existence with your passions, you create a state in which your actions authentically reflect your true self, eliminating any conflicts between your desires and your actions.
In practice
In a motivational speech to inspire students to find their passion.
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.
No one likes having offended another person; hence everyone feels so much better if the other person doesn't show he's been offended. Nobody likes being confronted by a wounded spaniel. Remember that. It is much easier patiently - and tolerantly - to avoid the person you have injured than to approach him as a friend. You need courage for that.
The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.
You are your own highest authority. Do not place your source of authority outside of you. Go within to see if the truth you've found is in harmony with the truth you find in your heart.
No one knows you better than you know yourself. Do the thing you want. Don't wait for someone else
The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.
So he tasted the deep pain that is reserved only for the strong, just as he had tasted for a little while the deep happiness.
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