Relationship as a means of escape vs as a vehicle for transformation

Relationship has true significance only when it is a process of self-revelation, when it is revealing oneself in the very action of relationship. But most of us do not want to be revealed in relationship. On the contrary, we use relationship as a means of covering up our own insufficiency, our own troubles, our own uncertainty. So relationship becomes mere movement, mere activity. I do not know if you have noticed that relationship is very painful, and that as long as it is not a revealing process, in which you are discovering yourself, relationship is merely a means of escape from yourself. – Krishnamurti, The Collected Works vol V p 230

More posts featuring Krishnamurti on Beyond Meds:

●  This is true meditation

●  If your meditation is only a personal matter; then it is not meditation

●  forget the ideal, the ideal is not real

●  facing facts

●  This is true meditation

Books by Krishnamurti:

●  Freedom from the Known

●  Total Freedom: The Essential Krishnamurti