embracing your innate beauty and perfection
Love
“Love has nothing to do with somebody else, it is your state of being. Love is not a relationship. A relationship is possible but love is not confined to it, it beyond it, it is more than that ~ man becomes mature the moment he starts loving rather than needing. He starts overflowing, he starts sharing, he starts giving. And when two mature persons are in love, one of the greatest paradoxes of life happens, one of the most beautiful phenomena… they are together, and yet tremendously alone; they are almost one. But their oneness does not destroy their individuality.”
- OSHO
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Jean-Pierre Hartman
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Eckhart Tolle
Jeff Foster
about 2 years ago
I like it.
But I’m now wondering what that means for you, personally?
about 2 years ago
Hello Glen! And welcome here :)
What it means for me personally, currently? I think love las lots to do with “the other.” I think it’s maybe only known, through “the other.” But I like what he says about love not being confined to a particular relationship, and it being simply a state of being. I like to see love as being a state of open-heartedness. So sometimes my heart opens more and sometimes less. Sometimes my heart feels safer opening to one “other” more than another.
On the ideas around being one versus staying individuals: this piece took me back to a time years ago when I was married and we were seeing a therapist who suggested we read Kahlil Gibran. At that time, my outlook was very much that the husband and wife are ONE, as in a unit seperate from everyone else. Very EX-clusive. So the Gibran prose didn’t sit so well – at that time. So here where Osho picks that up again (for me) I find I’m more open to the idea of being almost one (intimacy feels very like a merging to me) but also can identify with not wanting that merging to be such that one looses oneself. Not that it’s quite that black and white.
I’d like to hear your views :)
about 1 year ago
Calling “Glen.” Where are those thoughts you were going to add. Time to shake them up a little, no?
Actually I’m using this as an opportunity to nudge this blog entry to the front page. It speaks to me!