The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.
Interpretation
Belief can sometimes stem from our fears rather than true understanding or conviction.
Jiddu Krishnamurti's quote suggests that when people constantly assert their beliefs, it may reveal an underlying fear or insecurity. Instead of being steadfast and confident in their convictions, the need to repeatedly affirm beliefs can indicate a struggle with doubt and uncertainty, pointing to a deeper psychological condition that requires exploration rather than mere resolution through assertion.
In practice
In a philosophy class discussing the nature of belief and doubt.
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.
My perception has changed from thinking if someone's in jail they're supposed to be, to there's a lot of factors that's not that simple.
Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.
Sovereignty is not given, it is taken.
An admiral without ships, a hand without fingers, in service of a king without a throne. Is this a knight who comes before us, or the answer to a child's riddle?
What difference does it make, after all, what your position in life is if you dislike it yourself?
Christ exposed Himself not only to the unbridled hostility of angry men, but, more significantly, to the unmitigated wrath of God.
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