Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life.
Interpretation
The quote suggests that belief in God can be a way to avoid facing the harsh realities of life.
In this quote, Jiddu Krishnamurti criticizes the reliance on faith in God as a means of escaping the difficulties and monotony of life. He implies that instead of confronting and engaging with the challenges and suffering inherent in existence, individuals may turn to religious beliefs as a refuge, thereby avoiding the deeper exploration of their own lives and truths.
In practice
During a discussion about the role of religion in coping with hardships, one might use this quote to illustrate a perspective on faith.
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.
The world was to me a secret which I desired to devine.
Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life.
The greatest proof of Christianity for others is not how far a man can logically analyze his reasons for believing, but how far in practice he will stake his life on his belief.
Human nature is not of itself vicious.
Our intention is to affirm this life, not to bring order out of chaos, nor to suggest improvements in creation, but simply to wake up to the very life we're living, which is so excellent once one gets one's mind and desires out of its way and lets it act of it's own accord.
Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.
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