Why is it difficult to love someone continuously, and at which stage does love become devotion?
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"Love becomes effortless when it flows like breath; only then does it transform from a personal attachment into a universal devotion."
According to Osho, loving someone continuously is hard only when you ‘do’ love as an effortful act; action exhausts you and flips into its opposite—hence love-hate cycles and possessiveness that atrophies love. When love is a relaxed state of being—like breathing—it can be continuous. Focused on one person it’s love; when it becomes unfocused, objectless and universal, it matures into devotion/prayer.
Love lasts when it’s like breathing, not a chore; when it opens from one person to everything, it becomes devotion.
Why this matters practically
- Treat love as a way of being, not a task, to avoid burnout and conflict.
- Release possessiveness so love stays alive and doesn’t swing into hate.
- Expand love beyond one person to cultivate stable peace and devotion-like prayerfulness.
- Release possessiveness so love stays alive and doesn’t swing into hate.
- Expand love beyond one person to cultivate stable peace and devotion-like prayerfulness.
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