What does it mean when someone loves another person completely for many years without considering anyone else?
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outcome
"Real love is an overflowing energy that cannot be confined; it is inclusive, not exclusive, and only a Buddha loves wholly, but never exclusively."
According to Osho, exclusive, years-long love that 'never considers anyone else' is unbelievable—either madness or death—or mere conditioning and pretense. Real love is like breathing: an overflowing, inclusive energy that cannot be confined to one person. Forcing one-to-one exclusivity represses vitality, breeds jealousy and possessiveness, and reduces relationship to empty gestures. Only a Buddha loves wholly—but never exclusively.
Love is like air—you can’t only breathe for one person; if you try, you stop really loving and just pretend.
Why this matters practically
- Loosen possessiveness; allow kindness and warmth to flow to many without guilt.
- Drop conditioned jealousy to keep intimacy alive, honest, and playful.
- Choose authenticity over pretense; build trust through freedom, not control.
- Drop conditioned jealousy to keep intimacy alive, honest, and playful.
- Choose authenticity over pretense; build trust through freedom, not control.
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