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Awareness(15):

Love leads to the ultimate experience_called God, called the Absolute, called the Truth. These are only names. In fact the ultimate has no name. It is nameless, but love leads towards it.

Remember, love knows no boundaries. Love can not be jealous, because love can not possess. It is ugly, the very idea that you possess somebody because you love. You possess somebody_it means you have killed somebody and turned him to a commodity.

Only things can be possessed. Love gives freedom. Love is freedom.

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Awareness(14):

The moment love becomes attachment, love becomes a relationship. The moment love becomes demanding, it is a prison. It has destroyed your freedom. You can not fly in the sky, you are en caged.

Love has to be of the quality that gives freedom, not new chains for you. A love that gives you wings and supports you to fly as high as possible.

If love is understood as the meeting of two souls_not just a sexual, biological meeting of a male and female hormones_then love can give you great wings, it can give you great insights into life. And lovers can become for the first time friends. Otherwise they have always been enemies in disguise.

The religions and the so_called saints who have escaped from the world, who can not face and encounter life, have poisoned the whole idea of love as the only spirituality. They have condemned sex, and with their condemnation of sex, they have also condemned love, because people think sex and love are synonymous. They are not.

Sex is a very small part of your biological energy. Love is your whole being, love is your soul. You have to learn that sex is simply a need of the society, of the race, to continue itself_you can participate if you want. But you can not avoid love. The moment you avoid love all your creativity dies and all your senses become insensitive. Great dust gather around you. You become the living dead.

Yes, you breathe and you eat and you talk and you go to the office every day till death comes and release you from the boredom that you were carrying your whole life.

If sex is all that you have then you don't have anything. Then you are just an instrument of biology, of the universe, to reproduce. You are just a machine. But if you can conceive love as your real being, and loving another person as a deep friendship, as a dance of two hearts together with such synchronicity that they become almost one, you don't need any other spirituality. You have found it.

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Awareness(13):

Love is universal. Love doesn't invite only a few people to celebrate, love invites the stars and the sun and the flowers and the birds. The whole existence is welcome to celebrate.

Love doesn't need anything else_a night full of stars, what more can you ask for? Just a few friends... and the whole universe is friendly. I have never come across a tree who was against me. I have been to many mountains, but i have never found any mountains antagonistic. The whole existence is very friendly.

Once you own understanding of love blossoms, there is no question of attachment at all. You can go on changing your partners, that doesn't mean you are deserting anybody. You may come back again to the same partner, there is no question of any prejudice.

Man should understand himself to be just like a child playing on the sea beach, collecting seashells, colored stones and immensely enjoying, as if he has found a great treasure. If a person can enjoy small things of life, can live in freedom and can allow others to live in freedom, this whole world can become a totally different kind of world. Then it will have a quality of beauty, grace. It will have great luminosity, every heart on fire. And once you know the fire, the flames go on growing. Flames of love grow just like trees grow. Flames of love bring flowers and fruits, just as tree do.

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Awareness(12):

Love is the only freedom from attachment.... because when you love you can not even think of anything else. When you love everything, you attached to nothing. Each moment comes with new splendor, new glory, new songs. Each moment brings new dances. Perhaps partners may changes, but love remains.

Attachment is the desire that the partner should never change. For that you have to commit to the court, to the society_all stupid formalities. And if you go against those formalities, you will lose all respect and honor in the eyes of the people amongst whom you have to live.

Love knows nothing of attachment because love knows no possibility of falling from dignity. Love is the very honor itself. You can not do anything against it. I am not saying that partners can not change, but that it does not matter. If partners change but love remains like a river, flowing, then in fact the world will have much more love than it has today. Today, it is just like a tap_drip, drip, drip. It is not able to quench anybody's thirst. Love needs to be oceanic, not the drip, drip of a public tap.

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Awareness(11):

Attached to nothing,

Love is the only freedom from attachment. When you love everything you are attached to nothing.

In fact, one has to understand the very phenomenon of attachment. Why do you cling to something? Because you are afraid you will lose it. Perhaps somebody may steal it. Your fear is that what is available to you today may not be available to you tomorrow.

Who knows about what is going to happen tomorrow? The woman you love or the man you love_either movement is possible:

You may become closer, you may become distant. You may become again strangers or you may become so one with each other that even to say that you are two will not be right. Of course there are two bodies, but the heart is one, and the ecstasy surrounds you both like a cloud. You disappear in that ecstasy:

You are not you, I am not I. Love becomes so total, love is so great and overwhelming, that you can not remain yourself. You have to drown yourself and disappear.

In that disappearance who is going to be attached, and to whom?

Everything IS.

When love blossoms in it's totality, everything simply is. The fear of tomorrow does not arise. Hence there is no question of attachment, clinging, marriage, of any kind of contract, bondage.

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Awareness(10):

The Virtues of selfishness,

If you are not selfish you will not be altruistic, remember. If you are not selfish you will not be unselfish, remember. Only a very deeply selfish person can be unselfish. But this has to be understood because it looks like a paradox.

What is the meaning of being selfish? The first basic thing is to be self-centered. The second basic thing is always to look for one's blissfulness. If you are self-centered, you will be selfish whatsoever you do. You may go and serve people but you will do it only because you enjoy it, because you love doing it, you feel happy and blissful doing it-you feel yourself doing it. You are not doing any duty, you are not serving humanity. You are not a great martyr, you are not sacrificing. These are all nonsensical terms. You are simply being happy in your own way-it feels good to you.

A self-centered person is always seeking his happiness. And this is the beauty of it, that the more you seek your happiness the more you will help others to be happy. Because that is the only way to be happy in the world. If everybody else around you is unhappy, you can not be happy, because man is not an island. He is part of the vast continent. If you want to be happy, you will have to help others who surround you to be happy. Then_and only then_can you be happy.

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Awareness(9):

Your mind is constantly projecting-projecting itself. Your mind is constantly interfering with reality, giving it a color, shape, and form that are not its own. Your mind never allows you to see that which is. It allows you to see only that which it WANTS TO SEE.

Meditation means putting the mind aside so that it no longer interferes with reality and you can see things as they are.

Why does the mind interfere at all? Because the mind is created by society. It is society's agent within you. It is not in your service, remember! It is your mind but its not in your service. It is in a conspiracy against you. It has been conditioned by society. Society has implanted many things in it. It is your mind but it no longer functions as a servant to you, it functions as servant to society.

You have to put these minds aside: The communist mind, the fascist mind, the catholic mind, .....

There are three thousand religions on the earth_big religions and small religions and very small sects and sects within sects_ three thousand in all. So there exist three thousand minds, types of mind_and reality is one, and existence is one, and truth is one!

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Awareness(8):

The greatest miracle in the world is that you are, that i am. To be is the greatest miracle and meditation opens the door of this great miracle. But only a man who loves himself can meditate. Otherwise you are always escaping from yourself, avoiding yourself. Who wants to penetrate into an ugly being? Who wants to go deep into one's own mud, into one's own darkness?

Who wants to enter into the hell that you think you are? Who wants to keep this whole thing covered up with beautiful flowers and you want always to escape from yourself.

Hence people are continuously seeking company. They can't be with themselves. They want to be with others. People are seeking any type of company. If they can avoid the company of themselves, anything will do. They will sit and watch movies for hours and hours. Play cards just to kill time-as if they have too much time!

We don't have too much time. We don't have time enough to grow, to be, to rejoice. But this is one of the basic problems created by a wrong upbringing: You avoid yourself.

Love yourself, says Buddha. And this can transform the whole world. It can destroy the whole ugly past. It can herald a new age, it can be the beginning of new humanity.

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Awareness(7):

Love yourself,

Don't condemn yourself. You have been condemned so much, and you have accepted all that condemnation. Now you go on doing harm to yourself. Nobody thinks himself worthy enough, nobody thinks himself a beautiful creation of god. Nobody thinks that he is needed at all. These are poisonous ideas, but you have been poisoned.

Humanity has lived under a dark, dark cloud of self- condemnation. If you condemn yourself, how can you grow?

How can you ever become mature? And if you condemn yourself, How can you worship existence? If you can not worship existence within you, you will become incapable worshiping existence in others. It will be impossible. You can become part of the whole only if you have great respect for the God that resides within you. you are a host, God is your guest. By loving yourself you will know this: That God has chosen you to be a vehicle. In choosing you to be a vehicle he has already respected you, loved you. In creating you he has shown his love for you. He has not made you accidentally. He has made you with certain destiny, with a certain potential with a certain glory that you have to attain.

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Awareness(6):

Love yourself and watch -today, tomorrow, always.

Love yourself.

Just the opposite has been taught to you by all the traditions of the world. All the civilization, all the cultures, all the churches.

Love is the nourishment for the soul, just as food is to the body, so love is to the soul.

Love makes you rebellious, revolutionary. Love gives you wings to soar high. Love gives you insight into things, so that nobody can deceive you, exploit you, oppress you.

A man who loves himself finds that there is no ego in him. It is by loving others without loving yourself, trying to love others, that the ego arises.

Love knows nothing of duty. Duty is a burden, a formality. Love is a joy, a sharing. Love is informal. The lover never feels that he has done enough. The lover always feels that more was possible.

The man of duty thinks,"I am higher, spiritual, extraordinary. Look how i serve people!"

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Awareness(5):

Love never waits to be rewarded, even to be thanked. If the thankfulness comes from the other side, love is always surprised-It is a pleasant surprise,because there was no expectation. You can not frustrate real love, because there is no expectation in the first place. And you can not fulfill unreal love because it is so rooted in expectation that whatsoever is done always falls short. Its expectation is too great , nobody van fulfill it. So the unreal love always bring frustration, and real love always bring fulfillment.

A massage from Malachite:

Wearing a Malachite allows the body to absorb minute amounts of cooper in exactly the same way that cooper does. It is a powerful detoxifier but, as it is toxic, it should only be applied externally.

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Awareness(4):

Love is not what is ordinarily understood by the word. The ordinary love is just a masquerade. something else is hiding behind it. the real love is a totally different phenomenon. The ordinary love is a demand, the real love is a sharing. It knows nothing of demand. It knows the joy of giving. The ordinary love pretends too much. The real love is non pretentious. It simply IS. The ordinary love becomes almost sickening, syrupy, drippy what you call "Lovely-dove". It is sickening, it is nauseating. The real love is a nourishment, it strengthens your soul. The ordinary love only feeds your ego-not the real you nut the unreal you. The unreal always feeds the unreal, remember. and the real feeds the real.

A massage from Amethyst geode with snow quartz crystal:

Bringing love into your life. If you are seeking love , crystals will help. Place a large piece of Rose Quartz in the relationship corner of your house(farther right rear corner from front door), or put piece beside your bed.

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Awareness(3):

You will be surprised to know that the English word Love comes from a Sanskrit word lobha.

lobha means greed. It may have been just a coincidence that the English word Love grew out of a sanskrit word that means greed, but my feeling is that cannot be just a coincidence. There must be something more mysterious behind it,there must be some alchemical reason behind it. In fact greed digested becomes love. It is greed, lobaha, digested well, witch becomes love.

Love i sharing , greed is hoarding. Greed only wants and never gives, and love knows only giving and never asks for anything in return. It is unconditional sharing. There maybe some alchemical reason that lobha has become love in the English language . Lobha becomes love as far as inner alchemy is concerned.

A massage from Citrine geode:

It will not only attract wealth but will also help you to keep it.Place it in the wealth corner of your home(farther left rear corner from the front door).

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Awareness(2):

Love is not a phenomenon that can be confined. You can have it in your open hands, but you can not have it in your fist. The moment your hands are closed, they are empty. The moment they are open the whole of existence is available to you.

A massage from Smoky quartz elestial:

They put out pure , clean energy. Wearing a black Tourmaline around your neck protects you against electromagnetic emanations, including cellphones and computers and turns back psychic attack.

The Day that it started!

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Hi to whom ever is searching for LOVE,

My name is Nastaran and I am from Iran. I moved out here in 2005 and i have been living here in LA since then.

I don't want to go too far but since three years ago i have been searching and searching inside myself to see who i am and reading different books and studying about different religions.

Almost three months ago i went through an experience that it forced me to read these books from an Indian author called Osho , and since then i got this idea to publish part of his books in a daily quotes among with other authors and other useful notes. I hope reading these daily quotes help you in your beautiful journey as much as it did to mine.

Awareness(1):

Socrates says:

A man who practices the mysteries of love will be in contact not with a reflection, but with truth itself. To know this blessing of human nature , one can find no better helper than love.

This Love that can become a contact with truth itself arises only out of your consciousness_not out of your body, but out of your innermost being.

Lust arises out of your body, Love arises out of your consciousness. But people don't know their consciousness and the misunderstanding goes on and on_ their bodily lust is taken for love.

very few people in the world have known love. those are the people who have become so silent , so peaceful... and out of that silence and peace they come in contact with their innermost being, their soul. Once you are in contact with your soul, your love becomes not a relationship but simply a shadow to you. Wherever you move , with whomsoever you move, you are loving.

From the book of

Love freedom aloneness by Osho