Being alone
-1282- The ability to be alone is also the ability to truly love:
It may seem paradoxical to you, But that is not it. It's an essential truth.
Only the people who are able to be alone, are able to really love, to share and to penetrate to the deepest core of the other.
Without owning the other
Without becoming dependent on the other
Without reducing the other to a thing
Without getting addicted to the other
They allow the other complete freedom, because they know that when the other leaves they will be just as happy as they are now. Their happiness cannot be taken away by another, because it couldn't be given by anyone else. Osho (translated by me from English with additions by me)
Source my book: The true master is the master student subtitled: learn from these to-the-point life wisdoms that matter
