Jiddu Krishnamurti

We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free. What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it. You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life. Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life.