What has validity is your living, not what happens tomorrow.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the importance of living fully in the present rather than worrying about the future.
Jiddu Krishnamurti's quote highlights that the true essence of life lies in how we experience and engage with the present moment, rather than becoming preoccupied with uncertain future events. It encourages individuals to focus on their current actions and choices, suggesting that a meaningful life is cultivated through awareness and authenticity in each moment.
In practice
During a motivational speech about mindfulness.
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.
We come into the world alone and we die alone. Why, in life, should we be any less alone?
More and more people work on Sundays as a consequence of the competitiveness imposed by a consumer society.
If I feel any marginalisation, it's because the things that concern me aren't so important to other people.
Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them.
Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.
Under our system every voter and officeholder is a man who has demonstrated through voluntary and difficult service that he places the welfare of the group ahead of personal advantage.
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