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.
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If you listen through the screen of your desires, then you obviously listen to your own voice; you are listening to your own desires.
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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.
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Those who hate most fervently must have once loved deeply; those who want to deny the world must have once embraced what they now set on fire.
I know the place. It is true. Everything we do Corrects the space Between death and me And you.
The whole drama of the world is such tragedy that I am weary of the spectacle.
Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
For all men being originally equals, no one by birth could have the right to set up his own family in perpetual preference to all others forever, and tho' himself might deserve some decent degree of honours of his cotemporaries, yet his descendants might be far too unworthy to inherit them.
How long do you remember that it is the Lord who is making you work? But then, by repeatedly analysing like that, you will come to a state when the ego will vanish and in its place the Lord will come in. Then you will be able to say with justice "Thou, Lord, art guarding all my actions from within." But, my friend, if the ego occupies all the space within your heart, where forsooth will there be room enough for the Lord to come in? The Lord is verily absent!
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