Jean Klein - On Love

 

 “Love is the greatest emotion.
Love is the only emotion.
Love is eternal.
All emotion arises and dies in love.
Everything else is emotivity, states,
     transitions, all feeling that is in
      Time and space, bound to an object.

Love is without object.
It is completely unconditioned.
The heart of existence is love.
All that exists is in our heart.

Love is unexpressed.
The radiation of love comes from love and
      brings you back to the unexpressed.
When you love you come back to yourself.
You love yourself, not your person.
You love your own love, free from body,
     free from senses, free from mind.

In love there are no negative feelings,
      no hate, no fear, no moods, no anxiety,
      no compulsion , no conflict.
Love is beyond the split mind, beyond
       high and low, beyond complementarity.
The heart has no division.
The one you love is yourself.
The one you hurt is yourself.

There are glimpses of love when
      You are free from The I- image.
Remember the glimpse.
Remember the moment of no- relationship,
      no other.
When you love yourself, you love another.
When there is no you, there is no other.
Only love.

You must be ripe to love. Be ready.
Knowing yourself in your absence of self.
Love is only when there is no you.
Love is in your total absence.
In total absence is total presence.
Is Love.

The Book ofListening, Vol. VII, pp. 223-224

 

 

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