Why am I afraid to love if love has so much glory?
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outcome
"You fear love not because it lacks glory, but because it demands the courage to surrender your ego and dissolve into the vastness of existence."
According to Osho, you fear love precisely because of its vast glory; your conditioning prefers smallness, renunciation and indifference, and your ego clings to its cage. Love asks for total surrender - losing the head, dissolving like a drop in the ocean - and it tests you through separation and pain. The 'sensible' mind avoids this risky, ecstatic madness, so you retreat to familiar safety.
We’re scared of love because it means leaving our comfy cage, letting go of our “me,” and facing some ache before the joy.
Why this matters practically
- Recognize fear as conditioning, not truth, and choose openness.
- Practice small acts of ego-surrender and patience through loneliness.
- Trade false safety for aliveness, step by step.
- Practice small acts of ego-surrender and patience through loneliness.
- Trade false safety for aliveness, step by step.
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