TO FIT WITH SOMEBODY, IT IS A GREAT ART. To create a harmony between two persons... two persons mean two different worlds. When two worlds come close, clash is bound to be there if you don't know how to harmonize. LOVE IS HARMONY.
AND HAPPINESS, HEALTH, HARMONY, ALL HAPPEN OUT OF LOVE. Learn to love. Don't be in a hurry for marriage, learn to love. First become a great lover.
And what is the requirement? THE REQUIREMENT IS THAT A GREAT LOVER IS ALWAYS READY TO GIVE LOVE and is not bothered whether it is returned or not. It is always returned, it is in the very nature of things. It is just as if you go to the mountains and you sing a song, and the valleys respond. Have you seen an echo point in the mountains, in the hills? You shout and the valleys shout, or you sing and the valleys sing.
EACH HEART IS A VALLEY. If you pour love into it, it will respond.
The first lesson of love is not to ask for love, but just to give. BECOME A GIVER.
But people are doing just the opposite. Even when they give, they give only with the idea that love should come back. It is a bargain. They don't share, they don't share freely. They share with a condition. They go on watching out of the corner of their eye whether it is coming back or not. Very poor people... they don't know the natural functioning of love. YOU SIMPLY POUR, IT WILL COME.
And if it is not coming, nothing to be worried about -- because A LOVER KNOWS THAT TO LOVE IS TO BE HAPPY. If it comes, good; then the happiness is multiplied. But even if it never comes back, in the very act of loving you become so happy, so ecstatic, who bothers whether it comes or not?
LOVE HAS ITS OWN INTRINSIC HAPPINESS. It happens when you love. There is no need to wait for the result. JUST START LOVING. By and by, you will see much more love is coming back to you. One loves and comes to know what love is only by loving. As one learns swimming by swimming, by loving one loves.
But people are very miserly. They are waiting for some great beloved to happen, then they will love. They remain closed, they remain withdrawn. They just wait. From somewhere some Cleopatra will come and then they will open their heart... But by that time they have completely forgotten how to open it.
DON'T MISS ANY OPPORTUNITY OF LOVE. Even passing in a street, you can be loving. Even to the beggar you can be loving. There is no need that you have to give him something; you can smile at least. It costs nothing -- but your very smile opens your heart, makes your heart more alive.
HOLD SOMEBODY'S HAND -- a friend or a stranger. Don't wait that you will only love when the right person happens. Then the right person will never happen. Go on loving. THE MORE YOU LOVE, THE MORE IS THE POSSIBILITY for the right person to happen -- because your heart starts flowering. And a flowering heart attracts many bees, many lovers....
NOTHING CAN DESTROY LOVE. If it is there, it goes on growing. But my feeling is, it is not there in the first place. You misunderstood yourself; something else was there. Maybe sex was there, sex appeal was there. Then it is going to be destroyed -- because once you have loved a woman, then the sex appeal disappears... because the sex appeal is only with the unknown. Once you have tasted the body of the woman or the man, then the sex appeal disappears. If your love was only sex appeal, then it is bound to disappear.
So never misunderstand love for something else. If love is really love... WHAT DO I MEAN WHEN I SAY 'REALLY LOVE'? I mean that just being in the presence of the other you feel suddenly happy, JUST BEING TOGETHER YOU FEEL ECSTATIC, just the very presence of the other fulfills something deep in your heart... something starts singing in your heart, you fall into harmony. Just the very presence of the other helps you to be together; you become more individual, more centered, more grounded. Then it is love.
Love is not a passion, love is not an emotion. LOVE IS A VERY DEEP UNDERSTANDING THAT SOMEBODY SOMEHOW COMPLETES YOU. Somebody makes you a full circle. The presence of the other enhances your presence.
Love gives freedom to be yourself; it is not possessiveness.
So, watch. Never think of sex as love, otherwise you will be deceived. Be alert, and when you start feeling with someone that JUST THE PRESENCE, THE PURE PRESENCE -- NOTHING ELSE, NOTHING ELSE IS NEEDED; you don't ask anything -- just the presence, just that the other IS, is enough to make you happy... something starts flowering within you, a thousand and one lotuses bloom... then you are in love, and then you can pass through all the difficulties that reality creates.
Many anguishes, many anxieties -- you will be able to pass all of them, and your love will be flowering more and more... because all those situations will become challenges. And your love, by overcoming them, will become stronger, more and more.
LOVE IS ETERNITY. If it is there, then it goes on growing and growing. Love knows the beginning, but does not know the end.
OSHO
The Discipline of Transcendence
http://osho.com/LibArchive/HaveATaste/YourQuestion.cfm?Nr=43
AND HAPPINESS, HEALTH, HARMONY, ALL HAPPEN OUT OF LOVE. Learn to love. Don't be in a hurry for marriage, learn to love. First become a great lover.
And what is the requirement? THE REQUIREMENT IS THAT A GREAT LOVER IS ALWAYS READY TO GIVE LOVE and is not bothered whether it is returned or not. It is always returned, it is in the very nature of things. It is just as if you go to the mountains and you sing a song, and the valleys respond. Have you seen an echo point in the mountains, in the hills? You shout and the valleys shout, or you sing and the valleys sing.
EACH HEART IS A VALLEY. If you pour love into it, it will respond.
The first lesson of love is not to ask for love, but just to give. BECOME A GIVER.
But people are doing just the opposite. Even when they give, they give only with the idea that love should come back. It is a bargain. They don't share, they don't share freely. They share with a condition. They go on watching out of the corner of their eye whether it is coming back or not. Very poor people... they don't know the natural functioning of love. YOU SIMPLY POUR, IT WILL COME.
And if it is not coming, nothing to be worried about -- because A LOVER KNOWS THAT TO LOVE IS TO BE HAPPY. If it comes, good; then the happiness is multiplied. But even if it never comes back, in the very act of loving you become so happy, so ecstatic, who bothers whether it comes or not?
LOVE HAS ITS OWN INTRINSIC HAPPINESS. It happens when you love. There is no need to wait for the result. JUST START LOVING. By and by, you will see much more love is coming back to you. One loves and comes to know what love is only by loving. As one learns swimming by swimming, by loving one loves.
But people are very miserly. They are waiting for some great beloved to happen, then they will love. They remain closed, they remain withdrawn. They just wait. From somewhere some Cleopatra will come and then they will open their heart... But by that time they have completely forgotten how to open it.
DON'T MISS ANY OPPORTUNITY OF LOVE. Even passing in a street, you can be loving. Even to the beggar you can be loving. There is no need that you have to give him something; you can smile at least. It costs nothing -- but your very smile opens your heart, makes your heart more alive.
HOLD SOMEBODY'S HAND -- a friend or a stranger. Don't wait that you will only love when the right person happens. Then the right person will never happen. Go on loving. THE MORE YOU LOVE, THE MORE IS THE POSSIBILITY for the right person to happen -- because your heart starts flowering. And a flowering heart attracts many bees, many lovers....
NOTHING CAN DESTROY LOVE. If it is there, it goes on growing. But my feeling is, it is not there in the first place. You misunderstood yourself; something else was there. Maybe sex was there, sex appeal was there. Then it is going to be destroyed -- because once you have loved a woman, then the sex appeal disappears... because the sex appeal is only with the unknown. Once you have tasted the body of the woman or the man, then the sex appeal disappears. If your love was only sex appeal, then it is bound to disappear.
So never misunderstand love for something else. If love is really love... WHAT DO I MEAN WHEN I SAY 'REALLY LOVE'? I mean that just being in the presence of the other you feel suddenly happy, JUST BEING TOGETHER YOU FEEL ECSTATIC, just the very presence of the other fulfills something deep in your heart... something starts singing in your heart, you fall into harmony. Just the very presence of the other helps you to be together; you become more individual, more centered, more grounded. Then it is love.
Love is not a passion, love is not an emotion. LOVE IS A VERY DEEP UNDERSTANDING THAT SOMEBODY SOMEHOW COMPLETES YOU. Somebody makes you a full circle. The presence of the other enhances your presence.
Love gives freedom to be yourself; it is not possessiveness.
So, watch. Never think of sex as love, otherwise you will be deceived. Be alert, and when you start feeling with someone that JUST THE PRESENCE, THE PURE PRESENCE -- NOTHING ELSE, NOTHING ELSE IS NEEDED; you don't ask anything -- just the presence, just that the other IS, is enough to make you happy... something starts flowering within you, a thousand and one lotuses bloom... then you are in love, and then you can pass through all the difficulties that reality creates.
LOVE IS ETERNITY. If it is there, then it goes on growing and growing. Love knows the beginning, but does not know the end.
OSHO
The Discipline of Transcendence
http://osho.com/LibArchive/HaveATaste/YourQuestion.cfm?Nr=43
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