The very attention given to finding out if the mind can be completely quiet is quietness.
Interpretation
The act of searching for a quiet mind is itself a form of quietness.
Jiddu Krishnamurti's quote suggests that the effort to determine whether one's mind can achieve complete stillness is a manifestation of that stillness itself. It implies that the process of introspection and contemplation leads to a state of calmness, as attention itself can create a form of tranquility, highlighting the relationship between thought and silence in the pursuit of inner peace.
In practice
During a meditation retreat, one could reference this quote to emphasize the journey towards inner peace.
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 look at the developments in the international scene over the past many years, we haven't been able to resolve many problems and many crises, because we have approached them from a zero-sum perspective. My gain has always been defined as somebody else's loss, and through that, we never resolve problems.
Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.
That this individual life of all of us is not something limited in its temporal expression to the life that now we experience, follows from the very fact that here nothing final or individual is found expressed.
In contrast to revenge, which is the natural, automatic reaction to transgression and which, because of the irreversibility of the action process can be expected and even calculated, the act of forgiving can never be predicted; it is the only reaction that acts in an unexpected way and thus retains, though being a reaction, something of the original character of action.
America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests.
Life is not a struggle, not a tension. Life has not to be suffering. Life is bliss
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