It is only in alert silence that truth can be.
Interpretation
Truth is revealed in moments of quiet contemplation rather than in noise and chaos.
This quote by Jiddu Krishnamurti emphasizes the importance of silence and presence in discovering truth. In a world filled with distractions and constant noise, it suggests that genuine understanding and insight can only arise when we pause and listen attentively, allowing for deeper introspection and clarity to emerge.
In practice
A speaker at a mindfulness workshop might use this quote to encourage participants to embrace silence.
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.
they simply never understand, do they, that sometimes solitude is one of the most beautiful things on earth?
The idea that human kind can shape the world according to wish is what I call the fatal conceit
People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which they are not.
What goes on inside is just too fast and huge and all interconnected for words to do more than barely sketch the outlines of at most one tiny little part of it at any given instant.
It is indolence... Indolence and love of ease; a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good company, or of inclination to take the trouble of being agreeable, which make men clergymen. A clergyman has nothing to do but be slovenly and selfish; read the newspaper, watch the weather, and quarrel with his wife. His curate does all the work and the business of his own life is to dine.
When we hold to the core, the opposite sides are the same if they are seen from the center of the moving circle. I do not experience; I am experience. I am not the subject of experience; I am that experience. I am awareness. Nothing else can be I or can exist.
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