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.
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
I still believe that love is all you need. I don't know a better message than that.
And at the place where time stands still, one sees lovers kissing in the shadows of buildings, in a frozen embrace that will never let go. The loved one will never take his arms from where they are now, will never give back the bracelet of memories, will never journey afar from his lover, will never place himself in danger of self-sacrifice, will never fail to show his love, will never become jealous, will never fall in love with someone else, will never lose the passion of this instant of time.
When we see the Beloved in each person, it's like walking through a garden, watching flowers bloom all around us.
And yet ... But what if ... I want to do something impossible. Something astounding and unheard of. I want to scrub the moss off the Space Shuttle and fly Julie to the moon and colonise it, or float a capsized cruise ship to some distant island where no one will protest us, or just harness the magic that brings me into the brains of the Living and use it to bring Julie into mine, because it's warm in here, it's quiet and lovely, and in here we aren't an absurd juxtaposition, we are perfect.
And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
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