On love
…Do you understand what simple love is? Not the complexity of sexual love, not the love of God, but just love, being tender, really gentle in one’s whole approach to all things…
…Are you interested in all this? You should be. If you are not interested in being sensitive, you might be as well be dead-and most people are. Though they eat three meals a day, have jobs, procreate children, drive cars, wear fine clothes, most people are as good as dead…
…To love is the most important thing in life. But what do we mean by love? When you love someone because that person loves you in return, surely that is not love. To love is to have that extraordinary feeling of affection without asking in return. You may be very clever, you may pass all your examinations, get a doctorate and achieve a high position, but if you have not this sensitivity, this feeling of simple love, your heart will be empty and you will be miserable for the rest of your life…
…So it’s very important for the heart to be filled with this sense of affection, for then you won’t destroy, you won’t be ruthless, and there won’t be wars any more. Then you will be happy human beings; and because you are happy you won’t pray, you won’t seek God, for that happiness itself is God.
…To love is the greatest thing in life; and is very important to talk about love, to feel it, to nourish it, to treasure it, otherwise it is soon to dissipate, for the world is very brutal…
…But the moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.
Excerpt from the book “Think Of These Things”by Krishnamurti