"Obviously love is not sentiment. To be sentimental, to be emotional, is
not love, because
sentimentality and emotion are mere sensations. A
religious person who weeps about Jesus or Krishna, about his guru and
somebody else is merely sentimental, emotional. He is indulging in
sensation, which is a process of thought, and thought is not love.
Thought is the result of sensation, so the person who is sentimental,
who is emotional, cannot possibly know love. Again, aren’t we emotional
and sentimental? Sentimentality, emotionalism, is merely a form of
self-expansion. To be full of emotion is obviously not love, because a
sentimental person can be cruel when his sentiments are not responded
to, when his feelings have no outlet. An emotional person can be stirred
to hatred, to war, to butchery. A man who is sentimental, full of tears
for his religion, surely, has no love." - Krishnamurti, The First and Last Freedom, pp 232-233
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