Osho on Love

Osho on Intimacy – Everybody is afraid of intimacy

Osho on Intimacy

Question – Beloved Osho, of my many fears, the one of which i am most aware is that of intimacy. I am like a hit and run driver in my relationships with people. Could you speak to me of my fear of intimacy? Osho – Ramaprem, everybody is afraid of intimacy. It is another thing [...]

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Osho – Those who love and then hate are not real lovers

Osho on Real Love and Lovers

Question – When i love others it is a tension for me. Only my love toward you gives me a fulfillment, a freshness. Why is that? Osho – This, too, can become a frustration at any moment because the other still remains the center. Whoever it is… the other must not be the center. If [...]

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Osho – I say love is the first glimpse of eternity, and the last glimpse is god

Osho on Love and Eternity

Osho – Love is the only quality, a natural quality, that has something of eternity in it. Hence love is the first experience of god, the beginning of the experience of god. God is much more than that, but love opens the door. God is inconceivable, but love is not inconceivable. Love is natural, so [...]

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Osho – Because love is not yet unconditional, that’s why people are afraid of love

Osho on Love

Question – Why are people so afraid of being loved? Osho – Krishna Gopa has asked it. People ARE afraid of being loved. Because love brings misery, love brings lies. Love brings imprisonment, love brings slavery, love destroys freedom. That’s why people are afraid. And people cannot remain without love, because love is a necessary [...]

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Osho on difficulty in receiving love – Only in deep humility can love be received

Osho on difficulty in receiving love

[A therapist asks about his new relationship; that he finds it difficult to receive love, rather than to give it.] Osho – Mm mm, the mind is very afraid of love, so you have to consciously drop those defenses, otherwise love will never happen. You can go on giving; giving is not difficult for the [...]

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Osho – Reject love and you have rejected god. Welcome love and you have welcomed god

Osho on Love and God

Osho – Prem means love and nadam means the subtlest sound; the sound of love. It is the most subtle sound. You can hear it only when you are very very receptive. The ears won’t be of much help. Unless your heart listens to it, you cannot listen. It is continuously present. The whole life [...]

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Osho – Wherever love happens it is always between you and god

Osho - Wherever love happens

Osho – Deva means god, ragi means in love within love with god. We may know it, we may not, but our object of love is always god. Whenever we fall in love we fall in love with god. It may be just a glimpse and the glimpse may disappear, but we have fallen in [...]

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Osho – A person who loves from his heart is being responded to from everywhere

Osho on Love

Question – Does the Universe Love me? Osho – It is a wrong question to ask. You should ask the other way round, “Do you love the universe?” because universe is not a person. It cannot love you. It has no center, or you can say “everywhere it has the center,” but it is a [...]

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Osho – Take the risk of being in love with existence

Osho on being in love with existence

Osho – Prem Hasibo. Prem means love and Hasibo is a sufi name for God. It means: one who satisfies all needs. The full name will mean: love, the god that satisfies all needs. And love is the ultimate need. Everything else is secondary. Everything else is just a means to that great end. If [...]

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Osho – Power cannot fulfill a love need

Osho on love need

Osho – The ego goes on agreeing for wrong things, because the ego can exist only with the wrong. It feeds on the wrong. So whenever you feel that your ego is fulfilled, beware! — you have eaten something wrong, you have swallowed something wrong. Whenever you feel egoless, relax — now you have eaten [...]

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Osho – Each individual is unique, so unique that you have to discover yourself all alone

Osho - Each individual is unique

Osho – The greatest courage in life is needed when you go inwards, for many reasons… The first is: it is a flight from the alone to the alone, it is going deeper into your aloneness. And man is caught up in such a way that he becomes accustomed to company, to people, to family. [...]

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Osho on anxiety and love – Only love brings a state of no anxiety

Osho on anxiety and love

Osho – Prem means love, and achinta means no anxiety. And remember that only love brings a state of no anxiety – and only love. Everything else creates a new anxiety. You can go on changing your anxieties – somebody is seeking money, somebody is seeking power, then somebody starts seeking god – but all [...]

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Osho – logic has to be dropped and love has to be learned

Osho on Logic and Love

Osho – Love is the foundation on which one’s life can become a temple and one’s being can become a host for the divine guest. I teach love and nothing else, because everything else can follow without any effort. If you are capable of love you are capable of the impossible. If one can manage [...]

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Osho – love has to be unconditional, non-dominating, non-possessive

Osho - love has to be unconditional

Osho – Life is an art. One has to go on learning more and more about it. And the best way to transform oneself into a noble spirit is love. Love is the very alchemy of transformation. But up to now religions have been teaching people to hate. They sermonize on love; in the churches, [...]

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Osho – Ego is like darkness. It is the absence of love

Osho - Ego is like darkness

Osho – Love is not something to be obtained from the outside. Love is the music of your inner being. Nobody can give you love. Love can arise within you, but it cannot be obtained from the outside. There is no shop, no market, no salesman where you can buy love. Love cannot be bought [...]

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Osho – Be courageous enough to live whole-heartedly

Osho on Courage to Live and Love

Osho – Love needs the greatest courage in life, for the simple reason that the basic requirement for moving into the world of love is dissolving your ego — and that is the hardest thing to do. We cling to the ego like anything. We are ready to die for it, but we are not [...]

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Osho – Love has to be not only love but meditative love

Osho on Meditative Love

Osho – Love can arise only in the climate of trust. When you are full of doubts love is impossible. Doubt belongs to the mind and trust belongs to the heart. Being full of doubts mean s you are full of mind, and there is no space for the heart to grow. Being full of [...]

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Osho – If you are in love you are naturally, spontaneously, creative

Osho on Love and Creativity

Osho – If you are in love you are naturally, spontaneously, creative; if you are not in love you are not only uncreative, you become destructive. Millions of people live without love; hence there is so much destruction in the world, so much anger, violence, hatred. Very rarely do you come across a person who [...]

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Osho – Kabir is a declaration of the secret of this love

Osho on Kabir and Love

Osho – Kabir is a declaration of the secret of this love. He says: This is my path. And the path of love is for many. It is easier to move from the path of love than through any other path — because love is so close to your heart. The only problem that has [...]

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Osho on Love – First sight of love, First sight of wisdom

Osho on Love and Wisdom

Question: Beloved Master, Everyone wants to love and to be loved. Why? “First sight of love, last sight of wisdom.” Is it True? Osho – Bal Krishna Bharti, love is prayer groping towards God. Love is poetry born out of the sheer joy of being. Love is song, dance, celebration: a song of gratitude, a [...]

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Osho – If love cannot seduce you into meditation, then nothing else can

Osho on Love and Meditation

Osho – Love is the only experience in life which gives you a sense of immortality, which makes you aware that there is something which begins but never ends. It is the first lesson, it is the beginning of an incredible journey into god. Once a man has tasted even a drop of love he [...]

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Osho – To love needs great strength, not only physical but spiritual too

Osho on Love

Osho- To love needs great strength, not only physical but spiritual too. Weaklings cannot love. They can lust but they cannot love. Love means sacrifice and the first requirement of love is the dropping of the ego. And that is the most difficult thing in life: to become a nobody, to be just a nothingness. [...]

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