But if you have no relationship with the living things on this earth, you may lose whatever relationship you have with humanity.
Interpretation
A connection with nature is crucial for a deeper connection with humanity.
Jiddu Krishnamurti emphasizes the importance of our relationships with the living world around us. He suggests that if we fail to connect with nature and the other beings that inhabit our planet, we risk losing touch with what makes us human, ultimately affecting our ability to relate to each other as people.
In practice
In a speech about environmental conservation, one might use this quote to emphasize the importance of caring for nature.
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.
Both could feel the relationship crumbling to pieces beneath the weight of everything that Gavin refused to say.
I'm always wondering if he'll return. Sometimes I pray that he doesn't. And sometimes I hope he will. I wish on falling stars and eyelashes. Absence isn't solid the way death is. It's fluid, like language. And it hurts so much...so, so much.
When I ask OGs why there's so much division in the streets, nobody never really knows. But you know one thing that everybody always mention? A woman.
Kiss and make up-but too much makeup has ruined many a kiss.
You can give words, but you can't take them. And when words are given, that is when they are shared. We remember what that was like. Words so real they were almost tangible. There are conversations you remember, for certain. But more than that, there is the sensation of conversation. You will remember that, even when the precise words begin to blur.
Caring for others is an expression of what it means to be fully human.
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