Osho Quotes on Love
The healthy love of oneself is a great religious value.
“The healthy love of oneself is a great religious value. The person who does not love himself will not be able to love anybody else, ever. The first ripple of love has to rise in your heart.” ~ Osho
The person who follows the path of awareness finds love as a consequence
“The person who follows the path of awareness finds love as a consequence of his awareness, as a by-product, as a shadow.
And the person who follows the path of love finds awareness as a consequence, as a by product, as a shadow of love.
They are two sides of the same coin.” – Osho
Love is authentic only when it gives freedom
Love is authentic only when it gives freedom. Love is true only when it respects the other person’s individuality, his privacy.~ Osho
If one can understand what love is
“If one can understand what love is, one has started moving towards god. Love is the first glimpse, the first flower of spring. The coming of the first flower heralds the spring, announcing that it will be here soon. Love is the fragrance of god that announces he is very close by. Love is exactly the sound of his footsteps, and if you can follow the sound of his footsteps, you will find him!” – Osho
Relationship is needed only because you can’t be alone
“Relationship is needed only because you can’t be alone, because you are not yet capable of meditation. Hence, meditation is a MUST before you can really love. One should be capable of being alone, utterly alone, and yet tremendously blissful. Then you can love. Then your love is no more a need but a sharing, no more a necessity. You will not become dependent on the people you love.” – Osho
Falling in love you remain a child; rising in love you mature
“Falling in love you remain a child; rising in love you mature.
By and by love becomes not a relationship, it becomes a state of your being. Not that you are in love now you are love.” – Osho
Love means the art of being with others
“Love means the art of being with others. Meditation means the art of being with yourself. Both are two aspects of the same coin” – Osho
Love is the path and love is also the goal
“Love is the path and love is also the goal, the beginning and the end, the first step and the last step.
Love contains the whole of religion, but love has to be understood: it is not lust. It is not a desire to get something from anybody, on the contrary it is an overflowing joy, it is sharing.
Love is an art. It is the ultimate in aesthetics, it is creativity. When you love you want to enrich the world a little bit, you would like to leave it a little better than you found it. Only lovers can be creators.” – Osho
Love needs no perfection
“To flow and grow in love needs no perfection. Love has no-thing to do with the other. A loving person simply loves, just as an alive person breathes and drinks and eats and sleeps. Exactly like that a really alive person, a loving person, loves.” – Osho
Devotion is the highest form of love
“Devotion is the highest form of love. It is possible you may love one person, and love becomes so deep that slowly slowly the very quality of love changes into devotion.
Then that person becomes only a window for you to take a jump into existence ”
– Osho
