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.
I love to move like a mouse inside this puzzle for the body, balancing the wish to be lost with the need to be found.
Behold now this vast city [London]; a city of refuge, the mansion-house of liberty, encompassed and surrounded with His protection.
The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.
The body sleeps, the heart sleeps, the mind sleeps - but you remain alert because you are nothing else but alertness. Everything else is a false identification. Awareness is your nature. The body is your abode. The mind is your computer. Awareness;s you, is your very being.
Beauty endures only for as long as it can be seen; goodness, beautiful today, will remain so tomorrow.
The exercise of natural rights has no limits but such as will ensure their enjoyment to other members of society.
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