Osho on Love
Love walks on earth but it doesn't belong to us, it belongs to the sky. And it is starry;
all else is darkness
except love.
Only love has light in it,
only love is luminous.
When you are in love
there is light and life:
when love disappears
there is darkness,
except love.
Only love has light in it,
only love is luminous.
When you are in love
there is light and life:
when love disappears
there is darkness,
utter darkness. Hell is the space where love does not exist; heaven is the space where only love exists and nothing else. These are the names of spaces within our being. Love opens doors to the whole Milky Way. Love is the bridge between earth and heaven, between man and god. Let love be your only law; there is no higher truth. If a man can love, then nothing else is needed; that will transform. But a few things to be kept in mind about love.
Love should not be a demanding love; otherwise it loses wings, it cannot fly. It becomes rooted in the earth, becomes very earthly; then it is lust and it brings great misery and great suffering. Love should not be conditional, one should not expect anything out of it.
It should be for its own sake
not for any reward,
not for any result.
If there is some motive in it,
again, your love cannot become the sky.
It is confined to the motive;
the motive becomes its definition,
its boundary.
Unmotivated love has no boundary: it is pure elation, exuberance, it is the fragrance of the heart.not for any reward,
not for any result.
If there is some motive in it,
again, your love cannot become the sky.
It is confined to the motive;
the motive becomes its definition,
its boundary.
And because there is no desire for any result, it does not mean that results do not happen; they do, they happen a thousandfold more, because whatsoever we give to the world, it comes back, it rebounds. The world is an echoing place: if we throw anger, anger comes back; if we give love, love comes back. But that is a natural phenomenon, one need not think about it. One can trust: it happens on its own. This is the law of karma: whatsoever you sow, you reap; whatsoever you give, you get. So there is no need to think about it, it is automatic. Hate, and you will be hated. Love, and you will be loved.
And the third thing: let love become more and more conscious. When it is unconscious it remains entangled with sexuality. Nothing is wrong in sexuality but that is the lowest form of love, the first rung of the ladder. It is good in itself but to remain confined to it is not to grow: there are higher rungs in the ladder. The ladder reaches to the ultimate and sex is the first rung. Use it to go beyond it. Love should be more conscious. When it is conscious it is less sexual. I am not saying that there will be no sex: sex will be there but it will not be sexual. It will be pure sensuality; that is a totally different phenomenon. It will be sheer joy, sensitivity, but there will be no sexual mind behind it.
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