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.
Life is not a struggle, not a tension. Life has not to be suffering. Life is bliss
Remember that rights are moral principles which define and protect a man's freedom of action, but impose no obligations on other men.
A man's intentions should be allowed in some respects to plead for his actions.
You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
He that is strucken blind can not forget the precious treasure of his eyesight lost.
I looked back at the summit of the mountain, which seemed but a cubit high in comparison with the height of human contemplation, were in not too often merged in the corruptions of the earth.
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