Sir, when two people have the extraordinary quality of this state, words are not necessary. Where that quality of love exists, words become unnecessary. There is instant communication.
Interpretation
True love transcends words and allows for a deep, instant understanding between two people.
In this quote, Jiddu Krishnamurti expresses the idea that when two individuals share a profound connection characterized by love, their bond is so strong that verbal communication becomes redundant. This suggests that genuine love creates an immediate and intuitive understanding between partners, allowing them to connect on a deeper level without the need for words.
In practice
This quote can be shared at a wedding to emphasize the deep bond between the couple.
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.
It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
And even though i act crazy I gotta thank the lord that you made meh.
But maybe you never really had someone, she thought now. Maybe, no matter how much you loved them, they could slip through your fingers like water, and there was nothing you could do about it.
The lover's fatal identity is precisely this: I am the one who waits.
O love, O fire! once he drew With one long kiss my whole soul through My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew.
Our love was born outside the walls, in the wind, in the night, in the earth, and that's why the clay and the flower, the mud and the roots know your name.
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