If you would listen, sir, in the sense of being aware of your conflicts and contradictions without forcing them into any particular pattern of thought, perhaps they might altogether cease.
Interpretation
Awareness of one's inner conflicts can lead to their resolution without imposing preconceived notions.
In this quote, Jiddu Krishnamurti emphasizes the importance of being mindful of our inner conflicts and contradictions. By choosing to observe these elements without trying to fit them into established patterns of thought, we may find that they lose their hold over us, allowing for clarity and understanding in our lives.
In practice
In a workshop about conflict resolution, this quote can encourage participants to confront their inner struggles.
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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.
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Learn all you can, don't be lazy. Nothing's worse than being stupid. Being broke is bad, but being stupid is what's really bad. And what's really really bad is being broke and stupid. Nothing's much worse than that. Unless you're sick. Sick, broke and stupid, thatβs about as far as you can fall unless you're ugly. Surely that would be the ultimate; ugly, sick, broke and stupid.
I was training to be an electrician. I suppose I got wired the wrong way round somewhere along the line.
You have not forgotten to remember; You have remembered to forget. But people can forget to forget. That is just as important as remembering to remember - and generally more practical.
I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.
King old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always to to a good man, they say.
frustration, complication and misery are available in abundance, but so is God's grace.
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