Do you think love is something you can write about?⁠

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K: No, no. You can write it but if there is no feeling there, if your heart is not... has no love, how can you talk about it? You may, a poet like Keats may have had this feeling, I don't know. But I am saying there is no intelligence without love. And there cannot be love if you are ambitious, if there is conflict in you. And love is not the movement of thought. The picture it creates is not love. So love means the freedom from all conflict. It is not a negative state, but through negation you come to the positive. And when there is that love there is that intelligence, which is compassion. That intelligence is completely secure, that intelligence is security. But to come to that, one has to meditate - not all this silly stuff, moneymaking business - but one has to be very, very serious about all this, this isn't a passing thing for one day and then pick up another thing the next day. One has to... This is one's life. If one doesn't understand one's life, how can you have intelligence, how can there be love and so on?⁠
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J. Krishnamurti⁠
Interview San Francisco, California, USA - 28 April 1983⁠