We have so committed ourselves in different ways that we have hardly any time for self-reflection, to observe, to study.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of self-reflection and observation in a busy life.
Jiddu Krishnamurti's quote highlights the modern human tendency to become overly engaged in various commitments and distractions, leaving little room for inner reflection and genuine understanding of ourselves. In a fast-paced world filled with responsibilities, it is crucial to prioritize moments of stillness and contemplation to foster deeper awareness and personal growth.
In practice
In a workshop on personal development, this quote can be used to stress the need for reflection.
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.
People are eternally divided into two classes, the believer, builder, and praiser...and the unbeliever, destroyer and critic.
As a general principle, I should put it that a man's country is where the things he loves are most respected. Circumstances may have prevented his ever setting foot there, but it remains his country.
The modern pantheist not only sees the god in everything, he takes photographs of it.
The argument is made that naming God is never really naming God but only naming our understanding of God. To take our ideas of the divine and hold them as if they correspond to the reality of God is thus to construct a conceptual idol built from the materials of our mind.
Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.
The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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