If there is no order in your relationship with your wife, with your husband, with your children, with your neighbour - whether that neighbour is near or very far away - forget about meditation.
Interpretation
A harmonious relationship is vital for personal peace and meditation.
This quote by Jiddu Krishnamurti emphasizes the importance of maintaining order and harmony in our relationships, whether with close family, friends, or even distant acquaintances. He suggests that if our relationships are disorganized or fraught with conflict, it undermines our ability to find inner peace through practices like meditation.
In practice
This quote can be shared during a relationship workshop to emphasize the importance of harmony.
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.
There's nothing wrong or evil about having a bad day. There's everything wrong with making others have to have it with you.
Even an animal, if you show genuine affection, gradually trust develops... If you always showing bad face and beating, how can you develop friendship?
A strong man doesn't have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn't match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.
The simple power of prayer can save us all kinds of time and trouble if we will ask God to give us wisdom and discernment in our relationships.
Give me the gift of a listening heart.
To admonish your brother in private is to advise him and improve him. But to admonish him publicly is to disgrace and shame him.
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