On Love and Loneliness

So when somebody takes your coat away, you feel irritated because inwardly you are being deprived of that feeling of being rich, that feeling of possession.

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.

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

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

The fact is, my mind is doing that all the time. That is what we are discussing, to see how the mind is working; and perhaps, being aware of it, the mind itself will be quiet.

When you want something, when you desire, when you crave, when you want to be something, then you set a pattern; that is, your mind creates a pattern and gets caught.

Surely, love is not a thing of the mind. It is because the things of the mind have filled our hearts that we have no love. The things of the mind are jealousy, envy, ambition, the desire to be somebody, to achieve success.

Thought is the storing up of that incident or that pain or that suffering or that thing that gave delight.

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