I practise love. I sit down day after day and think about love. I practise, be kind, be gentle, forcing myself to pay attention to others. But that’s not love, is it? I think that unity of mankind is essential, and love is the only way, and to have that love I think I must practise. Like a machine, I must practise, and to practise I must think about it every day. But thought, being old, can never produce something new, and love is always new. That is the beauty of it.
From Talk to Students 2, Rajghat, 4 January 1967