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.
Do not take the agenda that someone else has mapped out for your life.
Upon the progress of knowledge the whole progress of the human race is immediately dependent: he who retards that, hinders this also.
There's zero correlation between being the best talker and having the best ideas.
Stupidity is active in every direction, and can dress up in all the clothes of truth. Truth, on the other hand, has for every occasion only one dress and one path, and is always at a disadvantage.
My heart is so small it's almost invisible. How can You place such big sorrows in it? "Look," He answered, "your eyes are even smaller, yet they behold the world.
To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.
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