According to Osho, love and death are two sides of the same coin: genuine love is a kind of death—the melting and burning away of the ego, boundaries, and separateness. Our fear of death becomes fear of love, so we create safe arrangements to avoid surrender. When we allow this inner dying, love flowers; birth, love, and death happen through the Divine, not personal control.
Real love asks you to let go of your small ‘me,’ which feels scary like dying, but that letting go is what makes love bloom.