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Krishnamurti on Love - What exactly is Love ?

  The demand to be safe in a relationship inevitably breeds sorrow and fear . The seeking for security invites insecurity . Have you ever found security in any of your relationships ? Have you? Most of us want the security of loving and being loved , but there is love when each one of us is seeking his own security, his own particular path? We are not loved because we don’t know how to love. Is love an idea ? If it is, it can be cultivated, nourished, cherished, pushed around, and twisted in any way you like. When you say you love God what does it mean? It means that you love a projection of your own imagination, a projection of yourself clothed in certain forms of respectability according to what you think is noble and holy; so to say, ‘I love God’, is absolute nonsense. When you worship God, you worship yourself, and that is not love. In what we call human love, there is pleasure, competition, jealousy, the desire to possess, to hold, to control and to interfere with another’s th...

The flame of discontent

https://jkrishnamurti.org/content/series-iii-chapter-16-flame-discontent ... Are the two desires different? Most people are discontented, but they generally tame it by finding something which gives them satisfaction, and then they function mechanically and go to seed, or they become bitter, cynical, and so on. Is that what you are after? "I don't want to become cynical, or just go to seed, that would be too stupid; I only want to find a way to soften the ache of this uncertainty." The ache exists only when you resist uncertainty, when you want to be free of it. "Do you mean I must remain in this state?" Please listen. You condemn the state you are in; your mind is opposing it. Discontent is a flame that must be kept burning brightly, and not be smothered by some interest or activity that is pursued as a reaction from the pain of it. Discontent is painful only when it is resisted. A man who is merely satisfied, without understanding the full significance of disco...