According to Osho, you feel close from afar because you’re relating to your own imagination; distance lets you project an ideal image and feel intimate with it. When together, fantasies must drop, and the other’s irreducible strangeness appears. We are existentially alone; no one can enter another’s aloneness. Real love accepts this mystery, meeting as free strangers without roles.
When you’re far, you love your picture of them; up close, the real, unknown person shows—so let go of the story and meet them honestly.