Passion is a rather frightening thing because if you have passion you don't know where it will take you.
Interpretation
Passion can lead to unexpected paths, and it can be both exciting and frightening.
This quote by Jiddu Krishnamurti asserts that passion is a powerful force that can guide individuals in unpredictable directions. While it can inspire one to pursue their dreams and desires, the inherent uncertainty of passion's path can also evoke fear, as it may lead to unforeseen outcomes and challenges that one must navigate.
In practice
In a motivational speech about following your dreams, one might say, 'As Jiddu Krishnamurti wisely pointed out, 'Passion is a rather frightening thing...''
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 borrowed his brightness and used it to see my way, and then gradually, from the habit of looking at the world as he illuminated it, the light in my own mind rekindled.
Don't think that because you have to go down in the wash-tub that you are any less a lady!
When you lose the ability to step up and hit the ball as hard and as far as you want, that also affects your ability to will the ball to go where you want it to go, if you know what I mean.
Prefer punishment to disgraceful gain; for the one is painful but once, but the other for one's whole life.
If what you want to tell me is neither True nor Good nor even Useful, why tell it to me at all
There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.
Subscribe for the occasional hand-picked quote. No noise.