Tag: Love
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Actually we have no love; we have sentiment; we have emotionality, sensuality, sexuality July 26, 2009
You know, actually we have no love - that is a terrible thing to realize. Actually we have no love; we have sentiment; we have emotionality, sensuality, sexuality; we have remembrances of somethin...
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Loneliness is the awareness of complete isolation; and are not our activities self-enclosing? September 02, 2009
What a strange thing is loneliness, and how frightening it is! We never allow ourselves to get too close to it; and if by chance we do, we quickly run away from it. We will do anything to escape fr...
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It requires an intense energy to stand alone. September 03, 2009
We discussed `need' the other day. We do need certain physical comforts, food and shelter; but to make psychological demands on life means that you are begging, that you are afraid. It requires an ...
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Try remaining with the feeling of hate, with the feeling of envy, jealousy, with the venom of ambition; for after all, that's what you have in daily life, though you may want to live with love, or ...
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Respectability is a curse; October 02, 2009
Respectability is a curse; it is an "evil" that corrodes the mind and heart. It creeps upon one unknowingly and destroys love.
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We don't love children, because we have no love in our own hearts. We just breed children. October 11, 2009
Question: What is the place of discipline in education? Krishnamurti: I should say, none. Just a minute, I will explain it further. What is the purpose of discipline? What do you mean by discipl...
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Surely it must be possible to function in a sexual relationship with someone you love without the nightmare which usually follows. November 13, 2009
Questioner: Is it possible for a man and a woman to live together, to have sex and children, without all the turmoil, bitterness and conflict inherent in such a relationship? Is it possible for the...
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Thought is the very denial of love, and it cannot enter into that space where the me is not. December 04, 2009
In the space which thought creates around itself there is no love.This space divides man from man, and in it is all the becoming, the battle of life, the agony and fear. Meditation is the ending of...
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Can the mind move from the known - not into the unknown, I don't know what that means - but be free and move away from the borders of the known? December 05, 2009
Krishnamurti: What is habit? Questioner: Not being aware. Krishnamurti: No. What is habit. - not how is it formed. Questioner: Repetition of a movement. Krishnamurti: Right. Why is ther...
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There is a common need to escape, and mutually we use each other. This usage is called love. December 29, 2009
Question: Why should I not escape from myself? I have nothing to be proud of, and by being identified with my wife, who is much better than I am, I get away from myself. Krishnamurti: Of course,...
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If you find the garden that you have so carefully cultivated has produced only poisonous weeds, you have to tear them out by the roots; January 03, 2010
If you find the garden that you have so carefully cultivated has produced only poisonous weeds, you have to tear them out by the roots; you have to pull down the walls that have sheltered them. You...
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When there is love there is no duty and no responsibility. January 05, 2010
Does love have responsibility and duty, and will it use those words? When you do something out of duty is there any love in it? In duty there is no love. The structure of duty in which the human be...
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An intelligent mind acts in the field of thought intelligently, sanely, without resistance; January 12, 2010
One asks: is love attachment? - not that love is detachment. When love is attached or detached then it is painful - which we all know, we go through that ugly state. Power is another form of corrup...
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We are saying: Be dead to love; it doesn't matter. Live entirely in your intellect and in your verbal manipulations, your cunning arguments. January 28, 2010
Questioner: Of course we can go on endlessly analysing, describing the cause, but will that bridge the gap between the mind and the heart? That's what I want to know. I have read some of the psycho...
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One has to find out the meaning of living, not merely giving an intellectual significance to it, but looking at what it means to live. January 31, 2010
One has to find out the meaning of living, not merely giving an intellectual significance to it, but looking at what it means to live. And one has also to go into this question of what love is, and...
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An ambitious man, whether he be a merchant, a politician, or a so-called saint is essentially a self-contradictory human being. February 24, 2010
The experiences, the influences, the traditions by which we are bound may be conscious or unconscious. Most of us are probably unaware of all these things that bind us. Being in a state of contradi...
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Sex plays an extraordinarily important part in our lives because it is perhaps the only deep, firsthand experience we have. April 04, 2010
Questioner: Can there be sex without this desire of thought? Krishnamurti: You have to find out for yourself. Sex plays an extraordinarily important part in our lives because it is perhaps the o...
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Love has no problem and that is why it is so destructive and dangerous. May 28, 2010
Love is not sorrow nor is it made up of jealousy but it is dangerous for it destroys. It destroys everything that man has built around himself except bricks. It cannot build temples nor reform the ...
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When you say to somebody `I love you', what does it mean? June 11, 2010
I wonder if you have ever observed anything, that is, to see things actually as they are, not as you wish them to be, or you hope they should be, but actually as they are? Have you ever observed a ...
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Is it possible to observe oneself and the world without any distortion, without any symbol, without any formula? July 12, 2010
In observation there is direct relationship, but when you have an image about her or him you are not in relationship. Surely, love is that relationship in which there is no image. So the question i...
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