Osho on Love
as taken from The Only Way Out Is In by Anthony "Prem" Carlisi


Love is the radiance, the fragrance of knowing oneself, of being oneself. Love is overflowing joy. Love is when you have seen who you are: then there is nothing left except to share your being with others. Love is when you have seen that you are not separate from existence. Love is when you have felt an organic, orgasmic unity with all that is.

Love is not a relationship, love is a state of being; it has nothing to do with anybody else. One is not "in love," one IS love. And of course when one is love, one is "in love" - but that is an outcome, a byproduct; that is not the source. The source is that one is love.

And who can be love? Certainly, if you are not aware of who you are, you cannot be love. You will be fear. Fear is just the opposite of love. Remember, hate is not the opposite of love as people think. The real opposite of love is fear. In love one expands, in fear one shrinks. In fear one becomes closed, in love one opens. In fear one doubts, in love one trusts. In fear one is left lonely, in love one disappears, hence there is no question of loneliness at all. When one is not, how can one be lonely?

Then these trees and the birds and the clouds and the sun and the stars are still within you. Love is when you have known your inner sky.

The young child is free of fear; children are born without any fear. If the society can help and support them to remain without fear, if they can help them to climb the trees and the mountains, and swim the oceans and the rivers. If the society can help them in every possible way to become adventurers, adventurers of the unknown, and if they can create a great inquiry instead of giving them dead beliefs, then the children will turn into great lovers, lovers of life-and that is true religion. There is no higher religion than Love.

Meditate, dance, sing and go deeper and deeper into yourself. Listen to the birds more attentively. Look at the flowers with awe, wonder. Don't become knowledgeable, don't go on labeling things. That's what knowledgability is, the great art of labeling everything, categorizing everything. From this age start playing guitar or learn to play the flute. Meet people, mix with people, with as many people as possible, because each person expresses a different face of God. Learn from people. Don't be afraid. This existence is not your enemy. This existence mothers you, this existence is ready to support you in every possible way. Trust and you will start feeling a new upsurge of energy in you; that energy is love. That energy wants to bless the whole existence, because in that energy one feels blessed. And when you feel blessed, what else can you do but bless the whole existence.


Love is a deep desire to bless the whole existence.