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Love, Freedom, and Aloneness: On Relationships, Sex, Meditation, and Silence
This idea is ugly because it is untrue. This idea is illusory, but our society exists, is based on this idea that each person is a person, not a presence.
from Love, Freedom, and Aloneness: On Relationships, Sex, Meditation, and Silence by Osho
The East and West are meeting in a very subtle way. The Eastern people are going to the West to learn science, to become scientists, and the Western seekers are moving toward the East to learn what religion is. A great mingling and merging is happening.
from Love, Freedom, and Aloneness: On Relationships, Sex, Meditation, and Silence by Osho
It is good that love fails, because the failure of love is bound to take you on a new pilgrimage. The longing will haunt you until it brings you to the temple where the meeting happens—but the meeting always happens with the whole . . . in which your lover will be, but in which the trees will also be, and the rivers and the mountains and the stars.
from Love, Freedom, and Aloneness: On Relationships, Sex, Meditation, and Silence by Osho
It is as if we are trying to fly in the sky with one wing. A few people have the wing of love and a few people have the wing of freedom—both are incapable of flying. Both wings are needed.
from Love, Freedom, and Aloneness: On Relationships, Sex, Meditation, and Silence by Osho
I also teach you to love yourself first. It has nothing to do with ego. In fact, love is such a light that the darkness of the ego cannot exist in it at all. If you love others, if your love is focused on others, you will live in darkness. Turn your light toward yourself first, become a light unto yourself first. Let the light dispel your inner dar
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Now your whole life will be wasted in condemning others. That’s why people are such great fault–finders. They find fault with themselves—how can they avoid finding the same faults in others?
from Love, Freedom, and Aloneness: On Relationships, Sex, Meditation, and Silence by Osho
Love knows nothing of duty. Duty is a burden, a formality. Love is a joy, a sharing; love is informal. The lover never feels that he has done enough; the lover always feels that more was possible. The lover never feels, “I have obliged the other.” On the contrary, he feels, “Because my love has been received, I am obliged. The other has obliged me
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When sex leaves you, the doors of meditation open. When sex leaves you, then you are not trying to lose yourself in the other. You become capable of losing yourself in yourself. Now another world of orgasm, the inner orgasm of being with oneself, arises. But that arises only through being with the other. One grows, matures through the other; then a
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Nobody asks how to know whether he is happy or unhappy. Nobody has ever asked. When you are unhappy, you know; when you are happy, you know. Then it is an intrinsic value. You know it, you are born knowing it, so let that intrinsic indication be used and it will never falsify your life.
from Love, Freedom, and Aloneness: On Relationships, Sex, Meditation, and Silence by Osho
Most of humanity behaves like other animals: Life is just growing old—not growing up. Growing up and growing old are totally different experiences.
from Love, Freedom, and Aloneness: On Relationships, Sex, Meditation, and Silence by Osho