Begin where you are. Read every word, every phrase, every paragraph of the mind, as it operates through thought.
Interpretation
Start from your current situation and understand your thoughts deeply.
This quote emphasizes the importance of self-awareness and mindfulness in the process of personal growth. Jiddu Krishnamurti suggests that one should begin their journey of understanding from their present reality, encouraging individuals to engage deeply with their thoughts and feelings as they navigate their mental landscape.
In practice
In a motivational speech about personal development.
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.
What good shall I do this day?
With parsimony a little is sufficient; without it nothing is sufficient; but frugality makes a poor man rich.
Neglect of duty does not cease, by repetition, to be neglect of duty.
Temporis ars medicina fere est._x000D_ _x000D_ Time is generally the best medicine.
Watch out for intellect, because it knows so much it knows nothing and leaves you hanging upside down, mouthing knowledge as your heart falls out of your mouth.
There are times in all of our lives when a reliance on gut or intuition just seems more appropriate - when a particular course of action just feels right.
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