Most of us are frightened of dying because we don't know what it meant to live.We don't know how to live,therefore we don't know how to die
Interpretation
Understanding life is essential to confront the fear of death.
This quote by Jiddu Krishnamurti emphasizes the connection between our understanding of life and our perception of death. It suggests that many people are afraid of dying not because of death itself, but due to a lack of clarity about what it truly means to live. If individuals fully grasp the essence of life, they can approach death with a more accepting and peaceful mindset.
In practice
In a motivational speech about embracing life, this quote can highlight the importance of understanding one's purpose.
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.
When I go around in America and I see the bulk of the white people, they do not feel oppressed; they feel powerless... and we understand the psychological genocide that they have already inflicted upon their own people.
Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat.
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
Magic is the science of the jungle.
The synergetic integral of the totality of all principles is God, whose sum-total behavior in pure principle is beyond our comprehension and is utterly mysterious to us, because as humans--in pure principle--we do not and never will know all the principles
I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.
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