hate exists with the
past and the future -- love needs no past, no future.

Love
exists in the present. Hate has a reference in the past:
somebody abused you yesterday and you are carrying it
like a wound, a hangover. Or you are afraid that somebody
is going to abuse you tomorrow -- a fear, a shadow of the
fear. And you are already getting ready, you are getting
prepared to encounter it.
Hate exists in the past and the future. You cannot hate in
the present -- try, and you will be utterly impotent.


Try it today:

sit silently and hate somebody in the present, with
no reference to the past or the future...you cannot do it. It
cannot be done; in the very nature of things it is impossible.


Hate can exist only if you remember the past: this man did
something to you yesterday -- then hate is possible.
Or this
man is going to do something tomorrow -- then too hate is
possible. But if you don't have any reference to the past or
the future -- this man has not done anything to you and he
is not going to do anything to you, this man is just sitting
there -- how can you hate? But you can love.


Love needs...