The impossible is to love without a shadow of jealousy and hate. Most of us are terribly jealous, envious and possessive – when you love somebody, your girlfriend or boyfriend, your wife or husband, you hold them tightly for the rest of your life. And that you call love. He or she is mine, and when the ‘mine’ looks away or becomes somewhat independent, there is fury, jealousy, anxiety, and all the misery begins. Now, to love without a shadow of all that, you would consider impossible: you say that would be inhuman, something superhuman, so it is impossible. If you see the impossibility of that, you will find out what is possible in relationship.
From Talk to Young People 3, University of California Santa Cruz, 19 February 1969