One has to go into the question of what love is. Most of us have different concepts, ideas, opinions: sacred love and profane love; love of the one and love of the many; can you love the many if you love the one? And we think we know love because we are jealous. To us, jealousy is part of love. You love your wife or husband, your children, the family – all that business – and there is jealousy, envy, ambition and greed. You don’t treat the family as a unit of convenience, but the family becomes strongly important, and the family then becomes antisocial. Where there is jealousy, envy, greed, ambition, competition, there is no love. We also know that the word ‘love’ is not the fact of love. And if there is no love in our heart, in our being, do what we will, there will always be misery and conflict. So, how does the mind or heart come upon the strange thing called love?

From Collected Works, Vol. 16

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