PEOPLE WHO ARE AFRAID ARE THE PEOPLE WHO ARE CAPABLE
OF TREMENDOUS LOVE.
Fear is a negative aspect of Love. If Love is not allowed to flow, it becomes fear. If Love is allowed to flow, fear disappears. That's why only in moments of Love there is no fear. If you Love a person suddenly fears disappears. Lovers are the only people who are fearless, even death creates no problem. Only lovers can die in tremendous silence and fearleness.
But it always happens that the more you Love, the more you feel Fear. That's why women feel more fear than men, because they have more potentiality for love. In this world there are very few possibilities to actualize your Love, so it remains hanging around you. And if any potentiality remains hanging, it turns to its opposite. It can become jelousy, that too is part of fear. It can become possessiveness, that too is part of fear. It can become even hatred, that too is part of fear. So be more and more loving. Loving uncoditionally, and love in as many ways as possible.
One can Love in millions of ways.
One can just Love a stranger passing on the road. One can just feel Love for him, and go on one's way. There is no need to even talk. There is no need to comunicate it. One can simply feel and go on one's own way. One can Love a rock, one can Love the trees, one can Love the sky and the stars. One can Love the friend, the husband, the children, the father, the mother.
One can Love in millions of ways.
REMEMBER BRAVE DOES NOT MEAN FEARLESS.
If somebody is fearless you cannot call him brave. You cannot call a machine brave, it is fearless. Bravery exist only in the ocean of fear, bravery is an island in the ocean of fear. Fear is there, but in spite of the fear one takes the risk- that is bravery. One trembles, one is afraid to go into the dark, and still one goes. In spite of oneself one goes. That is the meaning of being brave. It does not mean fearless. It means full of fear but still not being dominated by it.
The greater question arises when you move into Love. Then fear grips your soul, because to Love means to die, to die into the other. It is death, and a far deeper death than ordinary death. In the ordinary death only the body dies. In the death of Love the ego dies. To Love needs great guts. It needs one to be capable of going into it in spite of all the fears that will clamor around one. The greater the risk, the greater the possibility of growth - so nothing helps a man more in growth than Love. People who are afraid of being in Love remain childish, remain immature, unripe. It is only the the fire of Love that gives you ripeness.
From the Book: COURAGE The Joy of Living Dangerously
Pages : 87-88
By Osho (Insights for a new way of living)
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