Now, when you are aware, you see the whole process of your thinking and action, but it can happen only when there is no condemnation. That is. When I condemn something, I do not understand it.
Interpretation
Awareness comes from understanding without judgment, allowing for deeper insight into our thoughts and actions.
This quote by Jiddu Krishnamurti emphasizes the importance of being aware of our thoughts and actions without judgment or condemnation. When we judge or condemn something, we close ourselves off from understanding it, and therefore limit our ability to truly be aware of the processes that shape our thoughts and decisions. By fostering an open and non-judgmental mindset, we can achieve a greater awareness and clarity in our thinking.
In practice
In a workshop on personal development, you could use this quote to discuss the importance of self-awareness.
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.
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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.
There are people who have benefited from therapy without being confronted with the past at all.
It's better to be kind than to be right.
Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
Before you speak, ask yourself, is it kind, is it necessary, is it true, does it improve the silence?
'Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.
It is important that spiritual advancement must keep pace with material advancement. When this comes to be realized man's journey toward higher and more lasting values will show more marked progress while the evil in him recedes into the background. Knowing that material and spiritual progress are essential to man, we must ceaselessly work for the equal attainment of both. Only then shall we be able to acquire that absolute inner calm so necessary to our well-being.
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