Fear is what prevents the flowering of the mind.
Interpretation
Fear can hinder our ability to think and grow intellectually.
This quote by Jiddu Krishnamurti emphasizes that fear acts as a barrier to the development and flourishing of our intellect and creativity. When we allow fear to control us, we limit our potential to explore new ideas, understand complex concepts, and grow in our capabilities. Overcoming fear is essential for the mind to blossom and for learning to take place effectively.
In practice
In a motivational speech about overcoming challenges.
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.
Acquire the art of detachment, the virtue of method, and the quality of thoroughness, but above all the grace of humility.
We, of our time, have played our part in the perseverance, and we have pledged ourselves to the dead generations who have preserved intact for us this glorious heritage, that we, too, will strive to be faithful to the end, and pass on this tradition unblemished.
I must try to be alone for part of each year...and part of each day...in order to keep my core, my center...Women must be still as the axis of a wheel in the midst of her activities. She must be the pioneer of achieving this stillness, not only for her own salvation, but for the salvation of family life, of society, perhaps even of our civilization.
Ideas may drift into other minds, but they do not drift my way. I have to go and fetch them. I know no work manual or mental to equal the appalling heart-breaking anguish of fetching an idea from nowhere.
By your own folly you will be brought as low as your worst enemy wishes.
Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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