You know, actually we have no love - that is a terrible thing to realize.
Actually we have no love; we have sentiment; we have emotionality, sensuality, sexuality; we have remembrances of something which we have thought as love.
But actually, brutally, we have no love. Because to have love means no violence, no fear, no competition, no ambition.
If you love, if there is love, there is peace.
If you loved, you would educate your child not to be a nationalist, not to have only a technical job and look after his own petty little affairs; you would have no nationality. There would be no divisions of religion, if you loved.
So we have not that love. Now love cannot be cultivated, obviously; As humility cannot be cultivated, so love cannot be cultivated.
But you must have it. If you don't have it, you cannot have virtue, you cannot be orderly, you cannot live with passion - you may live with lust, which we all know.
So if you have no love, you have no virtue; and without virtue there is disorder.
Now, how are you going to get love? You must have love, as you must have water when you are thirsty.
How are you going to get it ? With time ? In a future life, the future life of tomorrow, or when you die, or in the next life ? Or the next second, which is still the future ?
And since you must have love as a human being, what will you do ?
There is no time. You can't say, ''Well, I can't have it. I can live without love because I have lived without love for two million years, and I will live another two million years without love'' - that means perpetual sorrow for the next two million years.
Sorrow cannot be put away or be resolved through time, nor can love be invited through time.
So what will you do ? If you say, please tell me what to do, then you are missing the bus entirely. But you have to see the importance, the immensity, the urgency of that question - not tomorrow, not the next day or the next hour, but see it now while you are sitting.
And to see that, you must have energy. So just see immediately - the catalyst that makes the liquid into solid or vaporizes it immediately does not take place if you allow time, even a second.
So the issue is with you, not with the speaker from whom you are expecting to get the answer. There is no answer. That is the beauty of it.
You can sit cross-legged, breathe rightly, or stand on your head for the next ten thousand years. Unless you have put this question to yourself - not superficially, not verbally, not intellectually, but with your whole being - you will live with it for two million years - those two million years may be only tomorrow.
So problems and time are intimately related - do you see it now ?
~ Krishnamurti ~
