What is our relationship when we live together in a house, as husband, wife, friend, or whoever it is? What is our relationship? Is it based on thought? Which is also feeling – the two cannot be divided. If it is based on thought, relationship becomes mechanistic. And for most of us, the relationship we have with each other is mechanistic. By mechanistic, I mean the image created by thought about you and about me – the images that each one creates and defends, over a number of years or over a number of days. You have built an image about me, and I have built an image about you, which is the product of thought. The image becomes the defence, the resistance, the calculation, building a wall around myself, and as I build a wall around you, you build a wall around yourself, and you build a wall around me. This what we call relationship, and it is a fact.

From Facing a World in Crisis

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