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Why is it difficult to love someone continuously, and at which stage does love become devotion?

Love becomes effortless when it flows like breath; only then does it transform from a personal attachment into a universal devotion.

— Osho
According to Osho, loving someone continuously is hard only when you ‘do’ love as an effortful act; action exhausts you and flips into its opposite—hence love-hate cycles and possessiveness that atrophies love. When love is a relaxed state of being—like breathing—it can be continuous. Focused on one person it’s love; when it becomes unfocused, objectless and universal, it matures into devotion/prayer.

Love lasts when it’s like breathing, not a chore; when it opens from one person to everything, it becomes devotion.

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