"If there is a beginning, there is an end.

"And your love begins – it begins at a certain moment in time – then it is bound to end. Yes, it can end sooner or later. If it ends quickly you call it momentary, if it takes a little longer time to end you call it permanent. But permanency also is not going to fulfill the heart, because the heart longs for that which does not end at all, which is forever. It is the longing for God. God is another name for eternal love.

"Jesus says: God is love – and that is one of the greatest statements ever made. Love becomes synonymous with God. If you can know the eternal love you have known godliness. Nothing is left, all is fulfilled.

"But the mind knows nothing of eternity. The heart yearns for the eternal, but the heart is continuously being interpreted by the mind, and mind knows only either a very short-lived love or a little long-lived love. But even if love lives a little longer the fear will always be there that it is going to end, and your fear is right – it is going to end. In fact, it will be longer if you are unintelligent. If you are very, very thick and very, very unintelligent it will take a long, long time for you to understand the futility of it all. If you are very intelligent it can end quickly because you will see that there is nothing much in it.

"The more intelligent a person is, the more short-lived will be his love – love as you know it. That is why as humanity is becoming more intelligent, love is becoming a short-lived phenomenon. In the past it was almost permanent; there was nothing like divorce. In uneducated countries there is still nothing like divorce. The more a country becomes educated, cultured, sophisticated, the rate of divorce increases, in the same proportion, for the simple reason that people can see that they get bored with each other. Then there is no point in dragging it on; then it is better to finish it. But the mind can finish one thing and immediately substitute it with another illusion, again and again."