It is utterly and irrevocably possible to empty all hurts and therefore to love, to have compassion. To have compassion means to have passion for all things, not just between two people, but for all human beings, for all things of the earth, the animals, the trees - everything the earth contains. When we have such compassion we will not despoil the earth as we are doing now and we will have no wars. β¨ Jiddu Krishnamurti's first public talk in Saanen, Switzerland, www.jkrishnamurti.org. July 14, 1974.
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