Core Insight:
According to Osho, people fear being loved because most love is conditional and exploitative: it demands compromises, lies, possession, and loss of freedom—turning relationship into a cage. Yet love is soul-nourishment, so we oscillate between hunger and imprisonment. Fear dissolves when love becomes unconditional—non-possessive, spacious, respectful—giving the other more freedom and nourishment than aloneness, allowing intimacy to deepen without humiliation.