Love

Freedom and love go together.

Love is not a reaction.

If I love you because you love me, that’s a mere trade- a thing to be bought in the market, that is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even feel that you are giving something-and only such love that can know freedom.

When the mother and father love their children, they do not compare them with other children, it's their child, and they love their child. (also being said that, not all children are lucky enough to have such kind of love, and not all parents are the same-)

But you want to compare yourself with something better, with something nobler, with something richer, so you create in yourself a lack of love.

So as long as the mind is comparing there is no love, and the mind is always judging, comparing, weighing, and looking to find out where the weakness is. So where there is comparison, there is no love.

Love is not a sentiment, not romanticism, not dependent on something, and that state is extremely arduous and difficult to understand, or to be in — because our minds are always interfering, limiting, and encroaching upon its functioning. Therefore it is important to understand first the mind and its ways; otherwise, we shall be caught in illusions, caught in words, and sensations that have very little significance.

Love is something totally new every day, but pleasure is not, pleasure has continuity. Love is always new, and therefore it is its own eternity.