I am a hopeless romantic. But I also enjoy being alone and being my own company. Not to be confused with lonely. There's a difference. I still believe in chivalry. I still believe in "real love. Ridiculous, inconvenient, consuming, can't-live-without-each-other love", just like Carrie Bradshaw.
My little sister posted a picture of this book on Instagram, and the title alone had me intrigued. Love, Freedom, and Aloneness - by Osho. Interesting right? So I pulled it up on Google books and previewed the first few chapters. Sometimes when reading books like this one (topics on love, inspiration, etc.), my initial thought is duh! It feels self-explanatory or has common sense context. But I try to get outta that mindset. And I try to use it as a reminder instead. I don't know everything and I'm sure I can pick up on something that can challenge my thinking. So here are a few of those things:
- Real love is a nourishment, it strengthens your soul.
- Search into, meditate on love, experiment. Love is the greatest experiment in life, and those who live without experimenting with love energy will never know what life is. They will only remain on the surface without going into the depth of it.
- Meditation is nothing but enjoying your beautiful aloneness. Celebrating yourself; that's what meditation is all about.
- By loving yourself you will have destroyed much that society has implanted within you.
- Love leads to the ultimate experience - called God, called the Absolute, called the Truth.
- If you think only of sex and never become aware of love, then you are going down the drain. Yes, you will produce children and you will live in misery and you will play cards and you will go to see the movie and you will watch football matches and you will have great experiences of utter futility, boredom, war, and a constant undercurrent of anxiety, called by the existentialist, "angst". But you will never know the real beauty of existence, the real silence and peace of the cosmos.
Love can make it possible.
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