johnmdemarco posted on July 09, 2010 17:37
“If you love something, you never get tired of it—I mean love in which there is no seeking of a result, no wanting something out of it.”
Krishnamurti, sharing these thoughts with students among other ideas recorded in Think on These Things, points to the love “illiteracy” that infects our culture today. We have countless metaphors about love—and even more hit songs—and yet still possess such a tenuous grasp on what it means to be loving.
So much of what constitutes “love” is transactional in nature. It does not consume our full being; but, as Krishnamurti indicates, is caught up in “wanting something.”
This rears its ugly head in the core reason behind much of the divorce that shatters families, futures and net worth. Couples often have unreasonable expectations of each other, wrapped up in each partner’s demand for the other to meet certain needs that can only be found through individual self-awareness and application.
Love is a state of temporary happiness for so many, rather than an expression that flows out of two aware beings that happen to have journeyed across each other during a particular season of life. When a person surrenders to a gradual revealing of their true nature, they are consumed with compassion for themselves and, subsequently, other beings. Such a rebirth within the context of compassion frees a person to vitally love others in a non-transactional manner. Love itself flows through this individual, so that they literally embody love itself.
You know when you’ve come across true love, and I mean so much more than “romantic” love in this sentence. A person who has bloomed alive with compassion is contagious in their energy and caring. You feel closer to God in their presence.
And they are likely persons who have persevered in that quest for truth. Truth, then, must walk hand-in-hand with any authentic experience of love.
“In the very discovery of what is true there is love,” Krishnamurti continues, “and that love in man’s relationship with man will create a different civilization, a new world.”