On Love and Loneliness

When there is only one thing in your life that is an avenue to ultimate escape, to complete forgetfulness of yourself if only for a few seconds, you cling to it because that is the only moment you are happy.

Is not every activity of the mind a process of safeguarding, of seeking security, isolation?

his activities are of the mind, and whatever he touches he makes into a problem, a confusion, a misery.

Fear comes into being when there is division between the thinker and his thought; when there is no thinker, then only is there no conflict in thought.

Sex has its place, but when the mind gives it the predominant place, then it becomes a problem.

The very nature of our mind is to be dishonest, crooked, incapable of facing facts, and that is the thing that creates problems, that is the thing which is the problem itself.

Whereas if we can understand fear, go into it fully step by step, explore the whole content of it, then fear will never return in any form—and that is what I hope we can do now.

So for most of us, life is a process of isolation, of denial, resistance, conformity to a pattern; and naturally in that process there is no life, and therefore there is a sense of emptiness, a sense of frustration.

Now, what are we afraid of? Are we afraid of a fact, or of an idea about the fact? Please see this point.