A mind that is always comparing, always measuring, will always engender illusion. If I am measuring myself against you, who are clever, more intelligent, I am struggling to be like you and I am denying myself as I am. I am creating an illusion.
Interpretation
Comparing ourselves to others creates false perceptions and undermines our individuality.
This quote by Jiddu Krishnamurti emphasizes the dangers of constant comparison with others. When we measure ourselves against those we perceive as superior, we often lose sight of our true selves and create illusions about our worth, leading to self-denial and dissatisfaction. Instead of fostering our unique identities, we may become trapped in a cycle of striving to be someone we are not.
In practice
During a motivational speech to remind people to embrace their uniqueness.
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.
Ipsa scientia potestas est. (Knowledge itself is power.)
This, I thought, is how great visionaries and poets see everything- as if for the first time. Each morning they see a new world before their eyes; they do not really see it, they create it.
But it is hard to know them from friends, they are so obsequious and full of protestations; for a wolf resembles a dog, so doth a flatterer a friend.
Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.
Whoever doesn't flare up at someone who's angry wins a battle hard to win.
Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
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