1957 (The Spectrum of Serendipitous Lies)

I'm going to talk to you this evening on the subject of the spectrum of love We know that from time to time there arise among human beings People who seem to exude love as naturally as the sun gives out heat Because, we cannot control love until we have something to control Until you have it running You got to get your car running before you learn how to drive it You will not become a skillful driver by sitting, at the still car in the garage Anymore, that you will become a skill dancer If you simple never move your arms and legs And so, the first thing then is to discover, what indeed you do love If anything, then you will find that there is something Now, to trust one self to be capable of love To bring up love, in other words to... ah "Function" in a sociable way and in a creative way, is to take the risk, is to gamble Because, you may not come through with it And in the same way when you fall in love with somebody else Or you form an association with somebody else And you trust them, they may as a matter of fact not fulfill your expectations But that risk has to be taken The alternative to taking that risk is much worst than trusting and being deceived You have to take risks There will be disappointments and failures and disasters As a result of taking these risks, but in the long road it will work out My point is that if you don't take them Results will be so much worst that any kind of wild anarchy that could be conceived You see, here we are now, as a highly discipline human race With all kind of rules and religions... And what are we about to do? Blow ourselves completely into pieces Was this all a good gamble? Because you see, in tying up love in knots or in becoming incapable of it You can't destroy this energy When you won't love, when you won't let it out The thing comes out as a form of self-destruction The alternative to self-love in other words is self-destruction Because you won't take the risk of loving yourself properly You will be compelled to destroy yourself Because you see, in tying up love in knots or in becoming incapable of it You can't destroy this energy When you won't love, when you won't let it out The thing comes out as a form of self-destruction The alternative to self-love in other words is self-destruction Because you won't take the risk of loving yourself properly You will be compelled to destroy yourself So, which would you rather have? Would you rather have a human race which isn't always very well controlled And sometimes runs amok a little bit But on the whole continues to exist, with a good deal of honesty and delight When delight is available? Or would you rather have the whole human race Blown to pieces and cleaned off the planet Reducing the whole thing to a nice, sterile rock with no dirty disease on it called life? But I repeat The point that is necessary to understand this whole thing, is That love is a spectrum There is not, as it were, nice love and nasty love... Spiritual love, and material love... Mature affection on the one hand and infatuation on the other These are all forms of the same energy And you have to take it and let it grow where you find it If you find that only one of these forms exist in you If at least you will water it, the rest of the plant will blossom as well That, the essential prerequisite, from the beginning, is to let it have it way And then, what are we about to do? Blow ourselves completely into pieces Was this all a good gamble?