L O V E ✿ܓ

HAVE YOU EVER BEEN IN LOVE? --Then you breathe in love, then you walk in love. Then your step has a quality of dance in it, even visible to others. Then your eyes have a light, a different light to them. Then your face has a glow. Then your voice has a song in it.

A man who has never loved walks as if he is dragging himself. A MAN WHO HAS LOVED FLOATS AS IF ON THE WINGS OF THE WIND. A man who has never loved cannot dance because he doesn't know what dance is, in his inside being. He can never be ecstatic -- sad, closed, almost dead, almost living in a grave.

LOVE ALLOWS YOU TO MOVE TO THE OTHER, and when the energy moves to the other you become dynamic. When the energy moves to the other, from the other to you, suddenly you create a bridge between you and the other. And this bridge will give you the first glimpse, the first blueprint of what prayer is. It is a bridge between you and the whole.

I cannot conceive how it is possible for anybody to go to the prayer without going through love, so don't be scared of love. Die into love so that you can be reborn. LOSE YOURSELF INTO LOVE so that you can become again fresh and young. Otherwise there is no possibility of prayer.

AND DON'T FEEL HOPELESS ABOUT LOVE, because that is the only hope. Says Jesus, "If the salt loses its saltiness, then how it can be salted again?" And I say unto you: IF LOVE BECOMES HOPELESS, THEN THERE IS NO HOPE, because love is the only hope. Then where you will get the hope again?

Don't drop the effort, don't accept the failure. THERE EXISTS SOMEBODY FOR YOU; YOU EXIST FOR SOMEBODY. If the thirst is there, there must be water. If the hunger is there, there must be food. If the desire is there, there must be a way to fulfill it. DON'T FEEL HOPELESS. Revive your hope again, because only a hopeless person is irreligious; only a hopeless person is atheistic. Love is the only hope.

Through love, many new hopes will arise, because love is the seed of the ultimate hope -- that is God. MAKE EVERY EFFORT; don't settle in that hopelessness. It may be arduous but it is worth, because without it you are stuck; and YOU WILL BE THROWN BACK AND BACK AGAIN INTO LIFE UNLESS YOU LEARN THE LESSON OF LOVE. And once love is learned, prayer is so easy. In fact, there is no need to learn prayer; it comes by itself if you love.

OSHO
Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega
Vol 3, Ch #6: Mind in a hurry
am in Buddha Hall


(From River Osho with love)