Unloving people pretend to be loving through the relationship. There are loving people and there are unloving people. Love is a state of your being, not a relationship. So love relates, certainly, but never becomes a relationship. “Relationship is a structure, and love is unstructured. Loving People Need Not Have any Relationship His happiness has no reason from the outside world his happiness wells up within himself.” You meet a beautiful woman and you are happy, or you meet a beautiful man and you are happy – but the meditator is simply happy. “Meditation is enjoying oneself, just sitting silently doing nothing: happy, joyous without any reason, because all reasons come from outside. Om Mani Padme Hum – The Sound of Silence: The Diamond in the Lotus, Talk #4 It does not mean concentration, it does not mean contemplation, it does not mean meditation even. “In the East we have another word, dhyan. But not knowing what meditation can be, he defines it as a deeper concentration and a deeper contemplation. His was the first book written in the West about meditation. “In the West, since Marcus Aurelius, meditation has been in a mess. It may be frustration, it may be depression, it may be sadness, it may be meaninglessness, it may be anguish: The problems may be many but the answer is one.
“Meditation is the only answer to all the questions of man. It is an attitude, an inner approach – how you look at things.” Creativity is the quality that you bring to the activity you are doing. You can clean the floor in a creative way. Activity itself is neither creative nor uncreative. “Anything can be creative – you bring that quality to the activity. Celebration is my attitude, unconditional to what life brings." It brings happiness – good, I celebrate it. It brings unhappiness – good, I celebrate it. Celebration is unconditional I celebrate life. Celebration is not conditional on certain things: ‘When I am happy then I will celebrate,’ or, ‘When I am unhappy I will not celebrate.’ No. Celebration means: whatsoever happens is irrelevant – I celebrate. And when you understand life in its totality, only then can you celebrate otherwise not. If it does not fulfill our desires, that simply means our desires were wrong.” “Trust simply means that whatever happens we are with it, joyously, not reluctantly, not unwillingly – then you miss the whole point – but dancingly, with a song, with laughter, with love. Trust Simply Means that Whatever Happens We Are with It That is not the point at all.’ Trust has nothing to do with the object of trust, it has something to do with your inner quality: can you trust?” Now, it is irrelevant what happens to my trust – whether it is respected or not, whether it is deceived or not. It simply says that, ‘I have that quality which trusts. Trust Has Nothing to Do with the Object of Trust It is not a question of being in love with someone – it is a question of being love.” Even if you are alone, love goes on overflowing from you. It should be just a quality in you wherever you are, with whomsoever you are. It is as if you are saying, ‘I will breathe only for you, and when you are not there, then how can I breathe?’ It is addressed and the moment you address your love, you destroy it. "This is one of the most significant things about all human beings: their love is always for somebody. “The basic fallacy that you are carrying within you is that you always loved somebody. Love exists only when there is a total acceptance and no desire to change anything.” “The way of love is the way of no-expectation. Love Exists Only When There Is a Total Acceptance Here you will discover a selection of quotes from Osho on a variety of topics