Where there is attention there is silence. But that silence is like a flame. You understand - alive, burning - not burning anything away, not - it's like - you understand? - it's like the sun, etc. So attention means complete cessation of the self. You try it: when you are attending you have forgotten yourself, there is no self. The self exists only when there is inattention, when there is no attention. Love is attention. I don't know... Not sex, not pleasure, not desire, which Americans have reduced to sex and pleasure, all that. So attention means silence and that silence is love. Without love there is nothing.
J. Krishnamurti
Scientists Question & Answer Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA - 21 March 1984
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