On Love and Loneliness

when the mind understands its whole process and so comes to an end, that is, when thinking ceases, then there is creation, and it is that creation which makes us happy. To be in that state of creation is bliss, because it is self-for-getfulness in which there is no reaction as from the self.

So for most of us, life is a process of isolation, of denial, resistance, conformity to a pattern; and naturally in that process there is no life, and therefore there is a sense of emptiness, a sense of frustration.

Fear comes into being when there is division between the thinker and his thought; when there is no thinker, then only is there no conflict in thought.

Sex has its place, but when the mind gives it the predominant place, then it becomes a problem.

Is not every activity of the mind a process of safeguarding, of seeking security, isolation?

Your desire crystallizes your mind.

the man who has accumulated money or knowledge can never know love, because he lives with the things of the mind;

Thought is the storing up of that incident or that pain or that suffering or that thing that gave delight.

Now, what are we afraid of? Are we afraid of a fact, or of an idea about the fact? Please see this point.