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Osho: Love Is Like a Spring Breeze
Love is just like
a spring
breeze:
it comes
and when it comes
it brings tremendous
fragrance,
beauty --
but it goes.
When it comes it gives you the feeling
that it is going to remain forever.
And the feeling is so strong
that you cannot doubt it,
there is no way to doubt it.
Under that
intense,
doubtless
certainty
you give promises,
the beloved gives promises,
not knowing at all that it is a spring breeze.
It comes
when it comes,
it goes when it goes.
It is not in your hands.
You cannot
capture it in your fist.
You can feel it
when your hand is open --
its coolness --
but the moment your fist is closed
there is no breeze there,
no coolness there,
no fragrance there.
But out of fear
man turned
love
into the same category
as the relationship you have with your father,
with your mother,
with your sister,
with your brother.
He forgot completely
that
the mother is not your choice,
the father is not your choice,
the brother or sister is not your choice.
These are given factors.
But the woman you have
fallen in love with
is the only thing in your life
which is not given
by birth,
which is not determined by birth,
which needs a conscious choice.
That too creates fear.
Just think:
If you had had to choose your mother
and your father
and your brothers
and your sisters,
your life would have been
so
burdened
with anxiety...
whom to choose,
whom not to choose?
But
these things are just given;
by your birth
nature provides them to you,
they are biological.
Love is psychological.
It depends
totally on you.
And because it depends totally on you
it creates fear,
you can commit a mistake.
You cannot commit a mistake
by being a son to a mother --
what can you do?
Every mother is beautiful,
every son is beautiful.
Every father is great,
every son
is special.
You have not been asked,
you have not even thought about it.
It all happened to you.
You were simply
a victim to all these relationships --
the mother, the father,
the brother, the sister.
It was not in your hands,
within your capacity,
to do anything about it.
But
when you fall in love
then there is
tremendous
fear,
uncertainty,
hesitation,
anxiety --
whether you are taking the right step
or the wrong step,
whether
this woman is made for you
or you are made for this woman?
Is it simply infatuation?
Or is there
certainly
something more than infatuation?
Is there love?
Or is it only a biological attraction?
A thousand and one problems
arise in you.
And the most difficult problem is:
whether it is going to last.
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