What happens when love turns to hate?
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"True love is not a pendulum swinging between love and hate; it is a state of being that exists in the absence of hate."
According to Osho, when love turns to hate it simply exposes that it was not real love but the ego’s opposite of hate; such 'love' carries hate within it and naturally swings between the two poles—fighting, clinging, reconciling. True love is the absence of hate, so it cannot reverse into hate. Only dualistic, possessive attachment oscillates; awareness-based love remains unmixed, nonreactive, and incapable of hate.
If your love turns into hate, it wasn’t real love—just a flip-flopping opposite; true love has no hate in it, so it can’t become hate.
Why this matters practically
- Spot the love–hate swing to tell attachment apart from genuine love.
- Drop possessiveness and practice awareness to cultivate hate-free love.
- Reduce drama by not reacting to the pendulum; choose steadiness and compassion.
- Drop possessiveness and practice awareness to cultivate hate-free love.
- Reduce drama by not reacting to the pendulum; choose steadiness and compassion.
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