Truth is something which you must see immediately — and to see something clearly you must give your heart and your mind and your whole being to it immediately.
Interpretation
Truth requires your full attention and commitment for clear understanding.
This quote emphasizes the necessity of dedicating oneself entirely—both emotionally and intellectually—to perceive truth clearly. Jiddu Krishnamurti suggests that simply noticing something is not enough; true understanding demands a total investment of one's being, indicating that the pursuit of truth is both an urgent and profound endeavor.
In practice
In a motivational speech about self-discovery and personal growth.
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.
Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.
Opinion-sharing sessions are like junk food: they fill you up with starch and leave you feeling both sated and hungry. A sustained inquiry into the truth of a matter is an almost athletic experience; it may exhaust you, but it also improves you.
I call intuition cosmic fishing. You feel a nibble, then you've got to hook the fish.
Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends.
Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
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