“Goodness shows itself in behaviour and action and in relationship.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Vol. I, p. 12
1980s, Letters to the Schools (1981, 1985)
Context: Goodness shows itself in behaviour and action and in relationship. Generally our daily behaviour is based on either the following of certain patterns — mechanical and therefore superficial — or according to very carefully thought-out motive, based on reward or punishment. So our behaviour, consciously or unconsciously, is calculated. This is not good behaviour. When one realizes this, not merely intellectually or by putting words together, then out of this total negation comes true behaviour.

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Indian spiritual philosopher 1895–1986

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