silence shared in words
presents
Nobody Teaches You About Hate
These are the ways
they have spoiled
your
authenticity about love.
Your question is, that I say love and hate
are the same energy;
then why is there so much hate in the world
and not so much love?
It is because nobody has been teaching you about hate;
hence, hate has remained pure,
unadulterated.
Nobody has bothered about you, nobody has told you how to hate,
whom to hate.
Because hate has been left untouched by your parents,
teachers, and priests,
it has a purity,
a sincerity.
When a man hates you,
you can trust that he hates you. But when he loves you,
you cannot trust him.
You know perfectly well that when you hate someone
it has a tremendous force,
and when you love someone
there is not that force.
You remember your enemies more than your friends.
You can forget your friends
but you cannot forget your enemies.
What is happening?
It is because your love has been distorted,
and something unreal,
which is not love,
has been handed to you.
And you have been playing with that toy
called love,
unaware that you have
a potential of love within you.
So when you love
it is just so-so,
skin-deep.
Scratch it a little bit and it is gone.
But when you hate,
you hate from your guts.
It is not skin-deep
it is gut-deep.
I have been surprised
how much purity your hate has,
how much authenticity, naturalness, spontaneity.
And just because of its spontaneity, naturalness,
authenticity, purity, I see in it a certain beauty which is not there in your love.
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