The movement of search can only be from the known to the known, and all that the mind can do is to be aware that this movement will never uncover the unknown. Any movement on the part of the known is still within the field of the known.
Interpretation
The pursuit of knowledge is limited to existing understanding and cannot reach the unknown.
Jiddu Krishnamurti emphasizes that the process of searching for knowledge is inherently restricted to the realm of what we already know. He suggests that any efforts to discover the unknown are futile if they are based on prior knowledge, indicating that true understanding requires a different approach, one that transcends our established frameworks and beliefs.
In practice
This quote can be used in a discussion about the limitations of scientific inquiry.
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.
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Show me a completely smooth operation and I'll show you someone who's covering mistakes. Real boats rock.
It is perilously easy to have amazing sympathy with God's truth and remain in sin.
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There isn't a sharp line dividing humans from the rest of the animal kingdom. All the time, we find animals doing things that, in our arrogance, we thought were just human.
...to return to their 'native soil,' as they say, to the bosom, so to speak, of their mother earth, like frightened children, yearning to fall asleep on the withered bosom of their decrepit mother, and to sleep there for ever, only to escape the horrors that terrify them.
A Religion of Evolution: that, when all is said and done, is what Man needs ever more explicitly if he is to survive and 'superlive,' as soon as he becomes conscious of his power to ultra-hominize himself and of his duty to do so.
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