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How can one nourish oneself with love?

Love is the nourishment of the soul; let it flow freely, unconfined by the mind's limitations, and watch your inner space blossom.

— Osho
According to Osho, love is the nourishment itself—there is no art or technique. Let love flow without boundaries or categories, beyond the mind’s need to limit it. As you love, your inner space unfolds, and love spreads like an aura, continually replenishing and expanding your being.

You feed your heart by letting love flow freely to everyone and everything, without trying to control or limit it.

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Om Mani Padme Hum · Discourse 20
1987-12-31 · Gautam the Buddha Auditorium · English

Beloved master, can you please talk about the art of nourishing oneself with love? I feel so much love for you! Is this enough?

But the truth is, love cannot be categorized the way it has been categorized throughout the whole history of mankind. There were reasons for them to categorize it but their reasons are ugly and inhuman, because in this categorization they killed love. Either you can have a loving heart... it has nothing to do with who you are loving; the emphasis of existence is that you are loving. It has not to be directed towards a certain person, because that is accepting that if someone is not part of the direction in which you are forcing your love to move, you become indifferent to them; you become even unloving to them. There are possibilities that you may even become hateful to them. The reason why all the cultures have insisted on categorization is because they have been very much afraid of love, is because if there is existential love, then…
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Even Bein Gawd Ain T A Bed Of Roses · Discourse 14
1979-10-14 · Chuang Tzu Auditorium · English
And only when one is full of light.... The first child of light is love. And love contains all that is beautiful, all that is divine: compassion, prayer, creativity, grace. They all follow love, you need not think about them, they are by-products, consequences of love. But love itself happens only through light. All meditation techniques are devices to bring you out of your sleep, to help you wake up. OSHO (to Aige) : Your heart starts pulsating in a different rhythm. The whole world remains the same but your eyes are no more the same; hence you start seeing things which you have never seen before and you stop seeing things which you have always been seeing. So in a sense the world remains the same and in another sense it is no more the same, because when the seer changes, the seen changes.
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Sabai Sayane Ek Mat · Discourse 8
1975-09-18 · Pune · Hindi · English translation
Question: Second question: Osho, is love life itself? Is it aliveness? These are now scientific findings; not poetry or stories. Many laboratories in the world have reached decisive conclusions: love increases life. The rose you love will produce larger flowers—of course it will, because you have given it dignity. The life of the plant is thrilled; it wants to delight you because you delighted it. You gave to it; it wants to return. What more can it do but blossom into a larger flower? Under the love of true Masters, disciples have attained the Divine—sometimes without any doing at all. And at other times, after doing much, if the Master’s loving shade is not there, nothing happens. That is why surrender has such value. Surrender simply means: do not be a wall to the stream of love flowing from the Master’s life—be a door.
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Satyam Shivam Sundram · Discourse 4
1987-11-08 · Gautam the Buddha Auditorium · English
Question: BELOVED OSHO, HOW CAN I LOVE BETTER? My effort here, Indradhanu, is to give your center back to you. I call this centering, meditation. I want you simply to be yourself, with a great self-respect, with the dignity of knowing that existence needed you -- and then you can start searching for yourself. First come to the center, and then start searching for who you are. Knowing one's original face is the beginning of a life of love, of a life of celebration. You will be able to give so much love because it is not something that is exhaustible -- because it is immeasurable, it cannot be exhausted. And the more you give it, the more you become capable of giving it. The greatest experience in life is when you simply give without any conditions, without any expectations of even a simple "Thank you.
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Believing The Impossible Before Breakfast · Discourse 1
1978-02-01 · Chuang Tzu Auditorium · English
That's my whole work here. If I can give you a tongue-tip taste of tao, my work is finished: just a little taste of tao, and then it grows on its own. The first taste is difficult; once you have tasted it just a little bit, then it is so powerful, so potential, it spreads all over your being. It overwhelms you, it takes you on the greatest journey of life; into nature, into reality, into things as they are, into tao. [Osho gives sannyas:] Close your eyes and feel full of light inside, as if a great light is arising from your belly and filling your whole body. If trembling arises, shaking, swaying, go with it. If your body wants to take some posture -- if your hands start moving -- allow it. Simply be possessed by this light, and wherever it takes you, go. ...
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