Inner Truth: On Relationships

A relationship is always a problem because the other becomes the mirror and the presence of the other help you to see your own face in many ways. And the same happens to the other -- you become the mirror. So the first problem with relationship is that relationship reflects you and you reflect the other person. And your totality comes up -- you are not just the surface.

Whenever you are in love, your deepest feeling is stirred. The so-called saints are nothing but people who have come to know one thing about themselves: that if they love, all chaos comes into being. If they don't love the whole chaos disappears. It is a one way to become peaceful. But this peace I don't teach because this peace is the peace of death. I teach you living peace. I would like you to pass through the chaos and transcend it -- rather than escaping from it. You have to pass through these situations.

With love you open Pandora's box. You know the story of what happened when Pandora's box was opened? Everything started coming out of it. The box was closed; only one thing remained in and that was hope.... so if hope also disappears there is no point in the relationship. Then get out of it. 

Unless a person has come to know his total being he will again and again go into a relationship. Going into a relationship is just a way to find your soul, to find who you are.

(God is Not for Sale, Chapter-11). Courtesy: Osho World Foundation, New Delhi, www.oshoworld.com

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