When there is suffering, either momentary or a continuous, endless series of causes that bring about suffering, look at it without the observer. You are that suffering; it is not that you are separate from suffering. Totally remain with that suffering. Then you will notice, if you go that far, if you are willing to observe so closely, that something totally different takes place: a mutation. That is, out of that suffering comes great passion. If you have done it, tested it out, you will find it. It is not the passion of belief, passion for a cause, passion for some idiotic conclusion. It is totally different from the passion of desire. It is something which is of a totally different kind of energy, not the movement of thought, which is mechanical. We have a great deal of suffering in what is called love. Love, as we know it now, is pleasure, sexual, the love of a country, the love of an idea, and so on – all derived from pleasure. And when that pleasure is denied, there is either hatred, antagonism or violence. Can there be love, not just something personal between you and me or somebody else, but the enormous feeling of compassion – passion for everything, for everybody? Passion for nature, compassion for the earth on which we live, so that we don’t destroy the earth, the animals, the whole thing. Without love, which is compassion, suffering must continue.

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