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 can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.
God dwells wherever man lets Him in.
For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?
Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.
The man of character, sensitive to the meaning of what he is doing, will know how to discover the ethical paths in the maze of possible behavior.
In life we sit at the table and refuse to eat, and in death we are eternally hungry.
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