We are violent. Throughout existence, human beings have been violent and are violent. I want to find out, as a human being, how to transcend this violence, how to go beyond it. What am I to do? I see what violence has done in the world, how it has destroyed every form of relationship, how it has brought deep agony and misery in oneself — I see all that. And I say to myself, ‘I want to live a really peaceful life in which there is a deep abundance of love—all the violence must go.’ Now, what have I to do?

From Beyond Violence

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Gerst told the ESA boss that he wishes all eight billion people on Earth could go to space just once and see what he saw - a small, fragile, beautiful planet, cared for not nearly well enough by the species lucky enough to live on it.

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Love has no continuity; it cannot be carried over to tomorrow; it has no future. What has is memory, and memories are ashes of everything dead and buried. Love has no tomorrow; it cannot be caught in time and made respectable. It is there when time is not. It has no promise, no hope; hope breeds despair. It belongs to no God, and so to no thought and feeling. It is not conjured up by the brain. It lives and dies each minute. Is a terrible thing, for love is destruction. It is destruction without tomorrow.

From Krishnamurti’s Notebook

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What takes place when there is no loneliness, when there is complete self-sufficiency? When there is no dependency, what takes place? I love you; you may not love me. I love you – that is good enough. I don’t need your response, that you love me – I don’t care. Like a flower, it is there for you to look at, to smell, to see the beauty of. The flower doesn’t say, ‘Love me’ – it is there. Therefore, it is related to everything. In that state of self-sufficiency – not in the ugly sense but in the great depth and beauty of sufficiency – there is no loneliness or ambition. That is really love. Therefore, love is related to nature. If you want it, there it is; if you don’t want it, it doesn’t matter. That is the beauty of it.

From To Be Human

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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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How can I love you, or you love me, if I am attached to you? My attachment is based on my pursuit of pleasure, which you give me, and on my image of you. I am attached to that image of you, and you are attached to the image of me. And the image is the past, the response of experience and knowledge. Is love the past? Is love experience? Is love memory? Is love the reaction to that memory as pleasure? So, one discovers, or the mind comes upon the fact, that where there is attachment of any kind, there is no love. This is not a statement, an idea, but an actual fact that the mind has discovered, which the mind, having an insight into attachment, sees the truth of. And seeing the truth of it, it is not occupied with the person, or with the furniture, or with the idea, and therefore it has its own energy. It is that quality of energy that is love. Therefore, love can never be hurt, love can never be jealous, never lonely; it can never ask to be loved.

From Facing a World in Crisis

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If you examine yourself, why are you attached to your wife or husband, to your money, to your house, to your property, to your ideas? Why? Because without that person, you are lost, you are empty; without property, without a name, you are nothing; without your bank account, without your ideas, what are you? An empty shell, aren’t you? So, because you are afraid of being nothing, you are attached to something, and being attached, with all its problems, with its fears, with its cruelties, with its anxieties and frustrations, you try to become detached, you try to renounce property, renounce your family, renounce your ideas. But you have not really solved the problem, which is the fear of being nothing, and that is why you are attached.

From Collected Works, Vol. 4

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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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You cannot live without relationship; life is relationship. However much one may want to isolate oneself for neurotic reasons or for some form of specialisation, one is still in relationship. So relationship is of the highest importance. There is no relationship if your daily activity is centred around your own egotistic activities. There is no relationship if you build a wall around yourself because you have been hurt, or because you cannot have what you want, or because you are trying to fulfil yourself in a particular activity. There is no relationship if you are tethered to a strong belief or a conclusion, either one given by another or one you have put together yourself. There is no relationship if you belong to one group as opposed to another, or if you have committed yourself to one course of action based on a rational or irrational conclusion. There is no relationship if you have an image about yourself or about another.

From The Whole Movement of Life Is Learning

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