There is an efficiency inspired by love which goes far beyond and is much greater than the efficiency of ambition; and without love, which brings an integrated understanding of life, efficiency breeds ruthlessness.
Interpretation
Love fosters a deeper understanding of life and amplifies our effectiveness, unlike ambition which can lead to cold efficiency.
In this quote, Jiddu Krishnamurti contrasts the motivating forces of love and ambition. He suggests that when one's actions are inspired by love, they not only become more effective but also more compassionate and understanding. In contrast, efficiency driven solely by ambition can lead to a lack of empathy and ruthless behavior. Thus, love not only enriches our abilities but also connects us to a more holistic understanding of life.
In practice
In a motivational speech about the importance of compassion in leadership.
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.
I belong to no religion. My religion is love. Every heart is my temple.
A lover exists only in fragments, a dozen or so if the romance is new, a thousand if we're married to him, and out of those fragments our heart constructs an entire person. What we each create, since whatever is missing is filled by our imagination, is the person we wish him to be. The less we know him, of course, the more we love him. And that's why we always remember that first rapturous night when he was a stranger, and why this rapture returns only when he's dead.
Forgiveness unleashes joy. It brings peace. It washes the slate clean. It sets all the highest values of love in motion.
To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
Spread love, it's the Brooklyn way.
A real girl isn't perfect and a perfect girl isn't real.
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