Why do I feel fully alive only when I am in love?
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"You feel fully alive in love because it awakens the energy within you, yet true aliveness comes from knowing your own innermost core, where love and freedom harmoniously coexist."
According to Osho, you feel fully alive in love because, until you know your own innermost core, your energy needs the 'other' to flow, flower, and feel nourished. Alone you mistake aloneness for loneliness; with the other, life dances, yet soon freedom feels encroached upon. This paradox endures until inner self-knowing births true aloneness, where love's aliveness and freedom are no longer opposed.
You feel most alive with someone because your inner light is still borrowed; their presence starts your energy flowing until you discover it inside yourself.
Why this matters practically
- Practice meditation or self-inquiry to turn loneliness into nourishing aloneness.
- Love without possession: protect each other's space and freedom.
- Stop outsourcing aliveness; let relationship be a celebration, not a dependency.
- Love without possession: protect each other's space and freedom.
- Stop outsourcing aliveness; let relationship be a celebration, not a dependency.
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