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.
He shook my hand and said goodbye with a sentence that might have been either good advice or a threat: "Take good care of yourself.
The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop.
Professional marriage counselors agree that the most productive and mature way to deal with marital anger is to stomp dramatically from the room. You want to make your move before the opponent does, because the first person to stomp from the room receives valuable Argument Points that can be redeemed for exciting merchandise at the Marital Prize Redemption Center.
I put on an act sometimes, and people think I’m insensitive. Really, it’s like a kind of armor because I’m too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn’t like me, I’ve got to get out.
These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: Can't live with them, or without them.
It is an important distinction to note that she looked not only as if she had taken good care of herself, but that she had good reason to have done so. (...) She looked to be in such total possession of her life that only the most confident men could continue to look at her if she looked back at them. Even in bus stations, she was a woman who was stared at only until she looked back.
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