We often feel alone when our heart is overflowing with love.<\/p>\n
A disciple asked Osho about the feeling of love in her heart and
\naloneness at the same time. How is it possible? It was too difficult
\nto understand.<\/p>\n
This is one of the deepest mysteries of life. We often feel alone when
\nour heart is overflowing with love. This is the quality of love that
\ndeepens meditation and in deep meditation one is left alone. The
\nalchemy of meditation is that even though one meditates in being
\nalone, one feels blissful that it overflows and seeks others to share
\nit with them.<\/p>\n
Meditation connects the individual to the ultimate source and the
\nindividual returns fulfilled from that flight. To the one who thinks
\nthat aloneness and love are diametrically opposite and have nothing to
\ndo with each other, this description may be shocking and unbelievable.
\nOne cannot believe this, but can only experience.<\/p>\n
People often think that when you are in love, you will not be alone.
\nThe misunderstanding is between two words \u2014 loneliness and aloneness \u2014
\nwhich means the same thing for many people They don\u2019t differentiate
\nbetween these two words, hence, the confusion.<\/p>\n
Osho points out: When you are in love, you cannot be lonely; that is
\ntrue. But when you are in love, you are bound to be alone \u2014 that is
\neven far truer… Aloneness is like a flower. I know your dictionaries
\nwill say that loneliness and aloneness are synonyms \u2014 they are not.
\nThey are totally different phenomena. Loneliness is a wound and can
\nturn into a cancer. Many people die of loneliness. The world is full
\nof lonely people, and because of their loneliness they go on doing all
\nkinds of stupid things to somehow cover that wound, hollowness,
\nemptiness and negativity. A lonely person starts eating too much, just
\nto feel full, s\/he starts taking alcohol or other drugs, because s\/he
\nwants to forget herself\/himself.<\/p>\n
Osho adds: Aloneness is totally different. Aloneness is a flower, a
\nlotus blooming in your heart. Aloneness is positive. It is the joy of
\nbeing yourself. It is the joy of having your own space. Yes, when you
\nare in love, you feel alone. Aloneness is beautiful, it is a blessing.
\nBut only lovers can feel it, because only love gives you the courage
\nto be alone, only love creates the context to be alone. Only love
\nfulfils you so deeply that you are no more in need of the other \u2014 you
\ncan be alone. Love makes you so integrated that you can be alone and
\necstatic.<\/p>\n
Love becomes the contrast: love and aloneness are two polarities of
\none energy. It is good to understand it, because sometimes it happens
\nthat lovers don\u2019t allow space enough to be alone. If lovers don\u2019t
\nallow each other space to be alone, then love will be destroyed,
\nbecause it is out of aloneness that love gets fresh energy, juices.<\/p>\n
When you are alone, you accumulate energy to a point from where it
\nstarts overflowing. That overflowing becomes love \u2014 then you can go
\nand share with your friend, with anybody you love. You have enough to
\nshare now; in fact, too much \u2014 you have to share.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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