On Love and Loneliness

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

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.

When you want something, when you desire, when you crave, when you want to be something, then you set a pattern; that is, your mind creates a pattern and gets caught.

The fact is, my mind is doing that all the time. That is what we are discussing, to see how the mind is working; and perhaps, being aware of it, the mind itself will be quiet.

It is only when I look at you without comparative judgment that I can understand you.

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

Surely, love is not a thing of the mind. It is because the things of the mind have filled our hearts that we have no love. The things of the mind are jealousy, envy, ambition, the desire to be somebody, to achieve success.

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

When there is only one thing in your life that is an avenue to ultimate escape, to complete forgetfulness of yourself if only for a few seconds, you cling to it because that is the only moment you are happy.