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51 Osho Quotes on Love
We begin with one of the most profound sutras of Gautama the Buddha: ‘Love yourself…’
Just the opposite has been taught to you by all the traditions of the world, all the civilizations, all the cultures, all the churches. They say: ‘Love others, don’t love yourself.’ And there is a certain cunning strategy behind their teaching.
Love is the nourishment for the soul. Just as food is to the body, so love is to the soul. Without food the body is weak, without love the soul is weak. And no state, no church, no vested interest, has ever wanted people to have strong souls, because a person with spiritual energy is bound to be rebellious.
Love makes you rebellious, revolutionary. Love gives you wings to soar high. Love gives you insight into things, so that nobody can deceive you, exploit you, oppress you. And the priests and the politicians survive only on your blood – they survive only on exploitation. All the priests and all the politicians are parasites.
To make you spiritually weak they have found a sure method, one hundred percent guaranteed, and that is to teach you not to love yourself. If a man cannot love himself he cannot love anybody else either. The teaching is very tricky. They say ‘Love others,’ because they know if you cannot love yourself you cannot love at all. But they go on saying, ‘Love others, love humanity, love God, love nature, love your wife, your husband, your children, your parents, but don’t love yourself’ – because to love oneself is selfish according to them.
They condemn self-love as they condemn nothing else – and they have made their teaching look very logical. They say: ‘If you love yourself you will become an egoist, if you love yourself you will become narcissistic.’ It is not true. A man who loves himself finds that there is no ego in him. It is by loving others without loving yourself, trying to love others, that the ego arises.
Yes, I would like you to love yourself, because unless you love yourself you cannot love anybody else. You don’t know what love is if you have not loved yourself. But before you can love yourself you have to know yourself; hence love is secondary, meditation is primary.
And the miracle is, if you meditate and slowly, slowly get out of the ego and out of your personality and realize your real self, love will come on its own. You don’t have to do anything, it is a spontaneous flowering. But it blossoms only in a certain climate, and that climate I call meditation. In the climate of silence – no-mind, no disturbance inside, absolute clarity, peace and silence – suddenly, you will see thousands of flowers have opened within you, and their fragrance is love.
If you really want to know love, forget about love, remember about meditation. If you want to bring roses into your garden, forget about roses and take care of the rosebush. Give nourishment to it, water it, take care that it gets the right amount of sun, water. If everything is taken care of, the roses are destined to come in the right time. You cannot bring them earlier, you cannot force them to open up sooner, and you cannot ask a roseflower to be more perfect.
Osho Quotes on Love
Have you ever seen a roseflower that is not perfect? What more do you want? Every roseflower is perfect in its uniqueness. Dancing in the wind, in the rain, in the sun – can’t you see the tremendous beauty, the absolute joy? A small ordinary roseflower radiates the hidden splendor of existence.
Love is a roseflower in your being, but prepare your being. Dispel the darkness and the unconsciousness. Become more and more alert and aware, and love will come of its own accord, in its own time. You need not worry about it. And whenever it comes it is always perfect.
Love is a spiritual experience – nothing to do with sexes and nothing to do with bodies, but something to do with the innermost being.
But you have not even entered into your own temple. You don’t know at all who you are and you are asking about love. First be thyself; first know thyself – and love will come as a reward. It is a reward from the beyond. It showers on you like flowers, fills your being. And it goes on showering on you, and it brings with it a tremendous longing to share. That sharing can only be indicated in human language as ‘love’ It does not say much, but it indicates the right direction. Love is a shadow of alertness, of consciousness.
Love needs immense consciousness. Love is a meeting of two souls, and lust is the meeting of two bodies. Lust is animal; love is divine. But unless you know that you are a soul, you cannot understand what love is.
I cannot tell you what love is, but I can tell you how to find your soul. That’s my whole work: to help you meditate, to help you become more aware, alert, so that slowly, slowly you start seeing that you are not just the body, that you are not just even the mind, that there is something else hidden behind it all, which is your real life. And once you become aware of your real life, your being, you will know that the joy of being is so overflowing that one wants to share it with someone who is receptive, someone who is available, with someone who is ready to open his heart.
The meeting of two consciousnesses is love.
Discover your consciousness and you will find what love is. It is an experience, and there is no way to say anything about it, more than that which I have said. The meeting of two consciousnesses merging into each other brings the greatest orgasm the universe allows.
But before that, you have to move away from the body and the mind and the heart, and reach to the very center of your being.
Once you have reached to the center of your being, you will find love radiating from you. It is not something to be done by you. It will be just as if the sun has risen and the flowers have opened, and the air has become filled with their fragrance.
Osho Quotes on Love
Love is a by-product of meditation.
Love makes no conditions, no ifs, no buts. Love never says, ‘Fulfill these requirements, then I will love you.’ Love is like breathing: when it happens you are simply love. It does not matter who comes close to you, the sinner or the saint. Whosoever comes close to you starts feeling the vibe of love, is rejoiced. Love is unconditional giving – but only those are capable of giving who have.
One of the most mysterious things about man is that he goes on giving things which he doesn’t have. You go on giving love and you don’t have it in the first place, and you go on asking for love from others who also don’t have it – beggars begging from beggars.
Love first has to happen in the deepest core of your being. It is the quality of being alone, happily alone, joyously alone. It is the quality of being a no-mind, of being silent. Contentless consciousness is the space, the context, in which love arises in you.
The healthy love of oneself is a great religious value. The person who does not love himself will not be able to love anybody else, ever. The first ripple of love has to rise in your heart. If it has not risen for yourself it cannot rise for anybody else, because everybody else is farther away from you.
It is like throwing a stone in the silent lake – the first ripples will arise around the stone and then they will go on spreading to the further shores. The first ripple of love has to be around yourself. One has to love one’s body, one has to love one’s soul, one has to love one’s totality.
And this is natural; otherwise you would not be able to survive at all. And it is beautiful because it beautifies you. The person who loves himself becomes graceful, elegant. The person who loves himself is bound to become more silent, more meditative more prayerful than the person who does not love himself.
If you don’t love your house you will not clean it; if you don’t love your house you will not paint it; if you don’t love you will not surround it with a beautiful garden with a lotus pond. If you love yourself, you will create a garden around yourself. You will try to grow your potential, you will try to bring out all that is in you to be expressed. If you love, you will go on showering yourself, you will go on nourishing yourself.
Osho Quotes on Love
And if you love yourself you will be surprised: others will love you. Nobody loves a person who doesn’t love himself. If you cannot even love yourself, who else is going to take the trouble? And the person who doesn’t love himself cannot remain neutral. Remember, in life there is no neutrality.
Love is the fragrance of the heart, always blooming.
In love, you find yourself in the other, yet remain uniquely you.
True love knows no boundaries; it is a vast, boundless ocean.
Love is not a possession; it is a shared dance of souls.
Let love be your constant companion, guiding your every step.
Love is not about finding, but about creating a beautiful connection.
In love, the ego dissolves, and two souls become one cosmic energy.
Osho Quotes on Love
Love is the greatest art, painting the canvas of life with vibrant colors.
To love deeply is to embrace vulnerability and celebrate authenticity.
Love is not a goal; it is the journey that transforms you.
In the silence of love, you hear the whispers of the universe.
Love is not possessive; it liberates both the lover and the beloved.
The beauty of love lies in its ability to heal and nurture.
Love is the music of the heart; let it play endlessly.
In love, you become a mirror, reflecting the beauty of the other.
Osho’s Words on Love
True love is not a prison but a garden where souls blossom.
Love is a flame that burns brighter when shared with others.
To love is to appreciate the uniqueness of each moment.
Love is not a transaction; it is a gift that keeps on giving.
In the embrace of love, fear and doubt fade away.
Love is the bridge that connects hearts across the river of differences.
To love is to surrender, finding strength in vulnerability.
Love is the language that transcends all barriers and unites all beings.
In the garden of love, forgiveness is the water that nourishes the soul.
To love without expectations is to experience the purest form of joy.
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