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.
Thank goodness for all the things you are not, thank goodness you're not something someone forgot, and left all alone in some punkerish place, like a rusty tin coat hanger hanging in space.
Do not be angry with me if I tell you the truth
. . .There are moments when time does stop. We must be alert enough to notice such moments . . .
A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption.
Over the years I have developed a picture of what a human being living humanely is like. She is a person who understand, values and develops her body, finding it beautiful and useful; a person who is real and is willing to take risks, to be creative, to manifest competence, to change when the situation calls for it, and to find ways to accommodate to what is new and different, keeping that part of the old that is still useful and discarding what is not.
Time is the most valuable thing you have - and I'm not just talking about the minutes for which you're paid.
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