
On Love and Loneliness

We are born alone, we live alone, and we die alone. Aloneness is our very nature, but we are not aware of it. Because we are not aware of it we remain strangers to ourselves, and instead of seeing our aloneness as a tremendous beauty and bliss, silence and peace, at-easeness with existence, we misunderstand it as loneliness. Loneliness is a misunde
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One day when you are really awake you will be able to love—but then you will be certain about your love only. But that’s enough! Who bothers? Because right now you want to use others; when you are really blissful on your own, you don’t want to use anybody. You simply want to share. You have so much, so much is overflowing, and you would like somebo
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When you say, “When I love someone it becomes an attachment,” you are saying you are not. So whatever you do goes wrong, because the doer is absent. The inner point of awareness is not there, so whatsoever you do goes wrong. First be, and then you can share your being. And that sharing will be love. Before that, whatsoever you do will become an att
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When sex leaves you, the doors of meditation open. When sex leaves you, then you are not trying to lose yourself in the other. You become capable of losing yourself in yourself. Now another world of orgasm, the inner orgasm of being with oneself, arises. But that arises only through being with the other. One grows, matures through the other; then a
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