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Chapter 100

Chapter 6 Section 4 True Love

[India] Krishnamurti

If you don't respect another person, whether he is your employee or your friend, there will be no love.

Haven't you noticed how disrespectful, unkind, and lenient you are to your employees, to those who are supposedly inferior to you?You respect people who are above you, respect your boss, respect millionaires, respect people who live in villas and titles, respect people who can give you a good position, a good job, you can get something from them .But you are rude and indiscreet with those who are inferior to you, and with them you have a special language.

Therefore, where there is no respect, there is no love; where there is no pity, no compassion, no forgiveness, there is no love.And since most of us are in that state, we don't have love.We have neither respect nor mercy nor magnanimity.We have and are full of sentimentality and passion, which can be used in turn in two ways: to slaughter, to butcher, or to become one with ignorant, ignorant intentions.So how can there be love?

You will know love only when all this is over, only when you are no longer possessive, when you are not excited simply by devotion to an object.That devotion is a supplication, sought in different ways.A man who prays does not know love.

Because you have, because you seek a constraint, a result through giving, through prayer, and that makes you sentimental, emotional, there is no love.

When spiritual things no longer fill your heart, then there is love, and love alone can reform the madness and insanity in the world now.Only when you can respect people, have compassion and compassion; only when you think about your wife, your children, your neighbors, your unfortunate employees, then you really love.

Love cannot be thought about, love cannot be cultivated, love cannot be practiced.

The practice of love, brotherhood is still in the spiritual realm, so it is not love.When all these stop, love will come and you will know what love is.

At that time, love is not in quantity, but in quality.You can't say "I love the whole world," but when you know how to love someone else, you know how to love the whole world.Because we don't know how to love others, our human love is a fiction.When you love there is neither one nor many, but love.

All our problems can be solved only when there is love, and then we will know the bliss and happiness of love.

【Together with you】

True love transcends power, fame, status, prejudice, narrow-mindedness... it exists with its extraordinary quality.Through tangible material barriers, we will come close to the essence of true love. We will find that love has no utilitarian color. , love is like a rope that travels through time and space, guiding the passage of time; love is like a bunch of torches that walk between heaven and earth, passing the torch in every pair of firm and generous palms... If you believe in your love , you will believe your lover's promise to you.

If you don't believe in your lover's promises, you actually believe that love cannot be promised.

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