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Osho Quotes on Love

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What you call love is often just a sexual appetite; true love is a gift that flows freely, without the need for fulfillment or exploitation.

Loving a master is to enter a lovesphere where your heart learns to love for love's sake, transforming personal attachment into a boundless, universal love.

People fear being loved because they have known only conditional love, which binds them in cages of compromise; true love, however, is a vast space that nourishes the soul and sets us free.

When your heart feels closed, dare to open it and embrace love, for only through vulnerability can you truly transform and nourish your soul.

Love is a natural force that transcends labels; embrace it in its purest form, and let go of the confines that society imposes.

When awareness flowers through witnessing, authentic love naturally blooms, transforming the mud of ordinary passion into the divine fragrance of true love.

Deep love transcends words; in its silence, we find the sacred essence of our being.

Love is a ladder with many rungs; it transcends mere biology and passion, inviting you to explore its subtler, creative dimensions.

Your blossoming may take the form of song and dance like Meera, or it may deepen into silence like Mahavira; what matters is not the form, but the flowering of your being.

Drop the borrowed morals and embrace your own experience; only then can love blossom beyond the confines of give-and-take.

When a man with love in his heart is selfish, his joy overflows, transforming selfishness into a contagious happiness that uplifts all around him. True unselfishness arises from the delight of loving oneself first.

Love is the only real communion; it is the subtle energy that transforms distance into closeness, allowing the heart to truly meet another.

A broken heart is not the end, but a necessary dismantling that reveals the truth of your being, allowing you to witness your thoughts and feelings as separate, leading you to freedom and enlightenment.

True love is not an act or a relationship; it is the natural state that emerges when we drop enmity and allow our true nature to shine forth.

Love transcends time and space, connecting the timeless essence of beings beyond the confines of distance and chronology.

Be a celebration of life, and let existence flow through you; in that spontaneity, true transformation can occur.

In the dance of devotion, weeping and laughing are not opposites but two expressions of the same love, each a prayer to the Beloved.

Ahimsa without love is merely a lifeless rule, while love transforms nonviolence into a joyous celebration of life, where we scatter flowers instead of thorns. Shunya is the inner silence that unveils this profound essence.

Love is not a belief or an ideology; it is the very essence of existence, a divine energy that transforms violence into joy and communion.

Live the world fully and follow your desires; from the depths of dissatisfaction, a true thirst for the Divine will naturally arise.

Infatuation is a dream woven by the mind's projections; only in the silence of an unclouded heart can true love and grace reveal themselves.

Love is the nourishment of the soul; let it flow freely, unconfined by the mind's limitations, and watch your inner space blossom.

Love is the seed, and devotion is its fragrance; when love transcends possessiveness, it blossoms into the divine perfume of devotion.

In a true harem of love, there is no jealousy, only the fragrance of trust and devotion, where gratitude and harmony flourish in abundance.