It is love alone that leads to right action. What brings order in the world is to love and let love do what it will.
Interpretation
Love is the fundamental force that guides our actions and fosters order in the world.
This quote by Jiddu Krishnamurti emphasizes the transformative power of love in shaping our actions and the world around us. It suggests that when love is the driving force behind our actions, it leads to harmony and positive outcomes, advocating for allowing love to lead us rather than relying solely on rationality or control.
In practice
During a wedding speech to highlight the importance of love in a marriage.
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.
True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one's life
Oh, my Margaret--my Margaret! no one can tell what you are to me! Dead--cold as you lie there you are the only woman I ever loved! Oh, Margaret--Margaret!
As we arise each morning, let us determine to respond with love and kindness to whatever might come our way.
If Marilyn is in love with my husband it proves she has good taste, for I am in love with him too.
The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.
Gentle lady, do not sing Sad songs about the end of love; Lay aside sadness and sing How love that passes is enough. Sing about the long deep sleep Of lovers that are dead, and how In the grave all love shall sleep: Love is aweary now.
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