Quotes on Love

In our relationship with children and young people, we are not dealing with mechanical devices that can be quickly repaired, but with living beings who are impressionable, volatile, sensitive, afraid, affectionate; and to deal with them we have to have great understanding, the strength of patience and love.

And the point is, is it possible for the mind to be totally free from suffering and yet not become indifferent, callous, irresponsible, but to have that passion, the intensity, the energy that freedom brings, freedom from suffering.

If there is no order in your relationship with your wife, with your husband, with your children, with your neighbour - whether that neighbour is near or very far away - forget about meditation.

Begin where you are. Read every word, every phrase, every paragraph of the mind, as it operates through thought.

In obedience there is always fear, and fear darkens the mind.

That is love, to give away everything, to sacrifice everything, without the slightest desire to get anything in return.3

Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.

Hell is our creation, and we create hell by trying to do the impossible. Heaven is our nature, it is our spontaneity. It is where we always are.

Accept yourself as you are. And that is the most difficult thing in the world, because it goes against your training, education, your culture.

Real love is not an escape from loneliness, real love is an overflowing aloneness. One is so happy in being alone that one wud like to share.

Discover yourself, otherwise you have to depend on other people's opinions who don't know themselves.

The love you feel in life is a reflection of the love you feel in yourself.

The myth is the public dream and the dream is the private myth.

You must never stop dreaming. Face reality, yes. But don't stop with the way things are; dream of things as they ought to be. Dream of peace. Peace is rational and reasonable. War is irrational in this age and unwinnable.

Suddenly, quietly, you realize that - from this moment forth - you will no longer walk through this life alone. Like a new sun this awareness arises within you, freeing you from fear, opening your life. It is the beginning of love, and the end of all that came before.

It is important that man dreams, but it is perhaps equally important that he can laugh at his own dreams.

Love is a well from which we can drink only as much as we have put in, and the stars that shine from it are only our eyes looking in.

Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us without words?

I saw some piglets suckling their dead mother. After a short while they shuddered and went away. They had sensed that she could no longer see them and that she wasn't like them any more. What they loved in their mother wasn't her body, but whatever it was that made her body live.

It's the most terrifying day of your life, the day the first one is born. Your life, as you know it, is gone. Never to return. But they learn how to walk, and they learn how to talk, and you want to be with them. And they turn out to be the most delightful people you'll ever meet in your life.

You don't pick who you fall in love with. There are so few people to love. It's hard for one adult to even like another. Almost impossible.