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What is the relationship between excessive familiarity and contempt?

Excessive familiarity breeds contempt, but in the realm of love and meditation, the closer you come, the more mystery unfolds, transforming boredom into an endless journey of deepening attraction.

— Osho
According to Osho, in the worldly realm, excessive familiarity dulls curiosity, finishes the mind's search, and ripens into boredom, what culture labels contempt. But with the Buddha, love, prayer, or meditation, familiarity never becomes excess: the closer you come, the more mystery opens. The infinite cannot be exhausted, so boredom and contempt do not arise; only deepening attraction remains, an endless journey without a last step.

With ordinary things, too much knowing makes you bored, but with the divine or true love, the more you know, the more wonder grows, so you never get tired of it.