If you find out what it is you love to do and give your whole life to it, then there is no contradiction, and in that state your being is your doing.
Interpretation
Discovering your passion and dedicating yourself to it leads to a harmonious life.
This quote by Jiddu Krishnamurti emphasizes the importance of identifying what you love to do and fully committing to it. By aligning your existence with your passions, you create a state in which your actions authentically reflect your true self, eliminating any conflicts between your desires and your actions.
In practice
In a motivational speech to inspire students to find their passion.
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.
Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are.
Not even the deepest sleep will give you such a rest as meditation can. The mind goes on jumping even in deepest sleep. Just those few moments in meditation your brain has almost stopped. ... You forget the body. ... You feel such pleasure in it. You become so light. This perfect rest we will get in meditation.
Don't let circumstances distress you. Rather, look for the will of God for your life to be revealed in and through those circumstances.
Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes.
Curiosity endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in their own mode of life which springs from their cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will.
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