When the mind sees itself in the mirror of relationship, from that perception there is self-knowledge.
Interpretation
Self-awareness can be achieved through understanding our interactions with others.
Jiddu Krishnamurti's quote emphasizes the idea that through our relationships with others, we gain insight into our own minds. When we reflect on our interactions, we are offered a unique mirror that reveals our thoughts, emotions, and patterns of behavior, ultimately leading to a greater understanding of ourselves and our place in the world.
In practice
In a discussion about personal growth, you might say, 'As Krishnamurti suggests, our relationships can act as mirrors that help us gain self-knowledge.'
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.
Treat people well on your way up and they'll treat you well on your way down.
I love a lot of people, understand none of them.
Many families remain for years in the same place, though both husband and wife are sick of it, simply because there is neither complete division nor agreement between them.
Psychologists call this habituation, economists call it declining marginal utility, and the rest of us call it marriage.
Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.
Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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