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.
If there is no element of asceticism in our lives, if we give free rein to the desires of the flesh (taking care of course to keep within the limits of what seems permissible to the world), we shall find it hard to train for the service of Christ. When the flesh is satisfied it is hard to pray with cheerfulness or to devote oneself to a life of service which calls for much self-renunciation.
Even a dog distinguishes between being stumbled over and being kicked.
They can send death at once, but life is slower.
The flag of racialism which has been hoisted in Wolverhampton is beginning to look like the one that fluttered 25 years ago over Dachau and Belsen.
God works powerfully, but for the most part gently and gradually.
If we can stay with the tension of_x000D_ opposites long enough —sustain it,_x000D_ be true to it—we can sometimes_x000D_ become vessels within which the_x000D_ divine opposites come together and_x000D_ give birth to a new reality.
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