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.
There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world.
I am as firmly convinced that religions do harm as I am that they are untrue.
Knot the tie and go to work, unknot the tie and go to sleep. I sleep. I dream. I wake. I sing. I get out the hammer and start knocking in the wooden pegs that affix the meaning to the landscape, the inner life to the body, the names to the things. I float too much to wander, like you, in the real world. I envy it but that’s the dealio—you’re a train and I’m a trainstation and when I try to guess your trajectory I end up telling my own story.
I don't know. I don't know at all. And that's what's frightening the life out of me. To have no idea.
And if the City falls and one survives _x000D_ he shall carry the City within on the roads of exile _x000D_ he shall be the City
If the spiritual universe and the way to it were shown, No one would remain in this world for a single moment.
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