Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery. Love, and don't be caught in opinions and ideas about what love is or should be. When you love, everything will come right. Love has its own action.
Interpretation
Seek your own understanding of love rather than relying on outside sources.
This quote emphasizes the importance of personal experience in understanding love. Jiddu Krishnamurti encourages individuals to move beyond societal norms, traditions, and external authority to discover love authentically within themselves. By engaging in self-discovery and genuine feelings, one will find that love naturally unfolds and leads to positive outcomes.
In practice
This quote can be used in a romantic relationship workshop to inspire couples to explore their own definitions of love.
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.
Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.
Love is higher than opinion. If people love one another the most varied opinions can be reconciled - thus one of the most important tasks for humankind today and in the future is that we should learn to live together and understand one another. If this human fellowship is not achieved, all talk of development is empty.
Yes I have loved, as no one on earth ever loved, with an insensate and furious love, so violent that I wonder it did not break my heart
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
Everyman is thoroughly happy twice in his life, just after he has met his first love, and just after he has left his last one.
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