The entries touch on favorite Krishnamurti topics like meditation, the dangerous effects of identification and of conditioned thinking, and the need for radical individual psychological reset.

Mary Lutyens, authorized biographer and longtime friend of Krishnamurti, writes in Foreword that in September 1973 he "suddenly started keeping a journal.

A typical entry expounds on one or more of Krishnamurti's favorite themes through observations of nature, consciousness, and life that often flow seamlessly into each other.

[7] A commentator stated that in this and other Krishnamurti diaries "depictions of nature are stunning in their fine detail, suggestive nuance, and variety.

He adds that in the Journal there are no overt references to the reputed experiences called the process and the otherness, that permeate the previously published Krishnamurti's Notebook (1976).

"[8] Lutyens believes this diary reveals "more about [Krishnamurti] personally than any of his other work"[9] and offers, "only in his writings ... we have these lovely descriptions of nature.

[11] In January 2023 the work was republished in the extended "third, revised full-text edition" under the title The Beauty of Life (subtitled Krishnamurti's Journal).

A review in the Yoga Journal commended the book as "vividly illustrating his [Krishnamurti's] philosophy of meditation-in-action", and its author as an "observer of great compassion" whose sensitive descriptions are applied to the smallest detail.