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Table of Contents
1. First Sight of Love, Last Sight of Wisdom 7
2. He Said / She Said: Love in a Relationship 25
3. Imprisoned by the Mind 41
4. The Way of the Heart 82
5. Love: The Purest Power 108
6. The Oceanic Experience of Being 120
Epilogue 142
OSHO International Meditation Resort 144
For More Information 147
Also by Osho 154
About the Author 156
Newsletter Sign-up 158
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Between life and death the most important thing that can
happen to a man or to a woman is love.
And love has many manifestations:
meditation is one of the manifestations of love.
—OSHO
Introduction
It is only love that makes a person creative. It is only in love that one
starts overflowing into existence, because it is only in love that one
has something to give and share. The person who has not known
love can’t be creative; he can only be destructive. It is the same
energy—joined together with love it becomes creative; disconnected
from love it becomes destructive.
The world can be a totally different kind of place if people are
allowed and not hindered from loving. If people are given a climate
of love, a milieu of love in which they can easily grow into loving
beings, the world can become the very paradise. World wars won’t
stop unless and until we have released love energy. Now, only love
energy can be the survival for humanity’s future. Only a love
explosion can be the antidote to the atomic explosion; otherwise
man is already coming closer and closer every day to a universal
suicide.
We have forgotten how to love, and we have created so many
destructive weapons that it is almost impossible to survive unless the
miracle of love happens on the earth. The situation is like this: in a
room there are all kinds of ammunition, and you have given a child
a matchbox to play with there. You are just hoping that nothing
wrong will happen, but there is every possibility—because the
matchbox is there, the child is there, the child’s curiosity is there. He
will open the matchbox; he cannot resist. He will try to do
something with the matchbox; he cannot resist. And explosive
ammunition is all around the room. It is almost impossible to avoid
the accident.
This is the situation: man is almost retarded as far as the heart is
concerned, and he has great powers released by science. Unless, in
the same proportion, we can release man’s love—his poetry, his
capacity to enjoy, live, celebrate—it is impossible to survive.
But this is one of the fundamentals: whenever you find a
destructive person, don’t be angry with him. Feel pity for him. Even
people like Adolf Hitler need to be pitied; they need compassion.
Their energies have turned sour and bitter and poisonous because
somehow they missed what love is. And the society is such that it
creates hate and prevents love. It creates competitiveness and
prevents camaraderie. It teaches you how to fight; it never teaches
you how to befriend.
My whole effort here is to release your love sources, to ignite
your love flame. And once that is there, then it takes care; then your
life will become creative of its own accord.
