Thought, with its emotional and sesational content, is not love. Thought denies love.Thought is found in memory, and love is not memory. When you think about someone you love, that thought is not love. By its very nature, thought is separative.
Thought inevitably breeds the feeling of ownership. It breeds that possessivness which conciously or unconciiously cultivates jealousy. Where jealousy is, obviously love is not ; and yet many people take jealousy as an indication of love.
If you did not think of another, you would say that you did not love that person. But is it love when you DO think of that person ? When you are with someone you love, you do not think about her ; it is only in her absence that thought begins to re-create scenes and experiences. Scenes and experiences that are dead. Should the revival of this past be called love ?
The process of thought ever denies love. It is thought that has emotional complications, not love. Thought is the greatest hinderance to love. Thought creates a division between what IS and what SHOULD be, and on this division morality is based; but neither the moral nor the immoral know love. The moral structure, created by the mind to hold social relationships together, is not love, but a hardening process like that of cement.
What is love ? Love is a state of being where thought is not ; but the very definition of love is a process of thought, and so it is not love.
The denial of thought will not bring about love, only freedom from thought will.
Meditation and not repetition, awareness and not definition.
Without being aware, love cannot be.
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