To learn about oneself, a living thing, you have to watch, learn anew each minute.
Interpretation
Self-discovery is a continuous process that requires constant observation and reflection.
This quote emphasizes the importance of ongoing self-awareness and attentiveness to one's own thoughts and actions. Krishnamurti suggests that self-understanding is not a one-time event but rather a dynamic experience that unfolds as we engage with our environment and reflect on our experiences in each moment.
In practice
During a personal development workshop, you could share this quote to inspire participants to engage in self-reflection.
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.
It is a far worthier thing to read by the light of experience than to adorn oneself with the labors of others.
The greatest discoveries are those that shed light unto ourselves.
When we are young, we spend much time and pains in filling our note-books with all definitions of Religion, Love, Poetry, Politics, Art, in the hope that, in the course of a few years, we shall have condensed into our encyclopaedia the net value of all the theories at which the world has yet arrived. But year after year our tables get no completeness, and at last we discover that our curve is a parabola, whose arcs will never meet.
There is usually only a limited amount of damage that can be done by dull or stupid people. For creating a truly monumental disaster, you need people with high IQs.
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.
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