Some people do not want to have anything more to do with love. Because there has been deception from all sides, they have kicked love away. They think it is too complicated, too tiring. They say, ‘I’m not going to love anyone any more and I don’t want anyone to love me, either.’ They do not even want to talk about it. They do not want to hear about motherly love, friendly love, any kind of love at all.
These are the ones who end up saying, ‘I just want to be alone.’ They think that love should mean freedom from all these things. Actually, this is a kind of arrogance. Such people do not understand that this earth is a field of action, and that this field and our being on it depends on the water of love. Life without love is like life in the jungle. What is life like in the jungle? We are constantly afraid of what might come to us. We are isolated, not receiving support from anywhere. People do not know how to give love, nor do they know how to receive. Thus, the heart is empty. Actually, just to take the time and effort to understand what love is, is in itself an act of love.