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.
Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization.
The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience.
A rational process is a moral process. You may make an error at any step of it, with nothing to protect you but your own severity, or you may try to cheat, to fake the evidence and evade the effort of the quest - but if devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality, then there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.
Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 153
Why not, when it can be done without exposure or expense, let me rescue some of America's miserable children from vice and guilt?
Evil comes to us men of imagination wearing as its mask all the virtues.
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