Love is a never ending topic, is it not? Some of the things I hear repeatedly are "There are many different types of love" or "I love being in love" or "Love changes" etc. From what I hear, there is a lot of suspiciousness around love, and romance in particular. People either don't believe love can sustain itself, or that significant pain is inevitable with love/relationships and that real, long lasting love just doesn't exist because as we get to know someone and we live with them, life gets in the way. I get it because I think I've pretty much had all of these experiences. May I turn this all on it's head and offer the following wisdom about real love vs "unreal" or "ordinary love" ...
"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.
You cannot frustrate real love because there is no expectation in the first place. And you cannot fulfill unreal love because it is so rooted in expectation that whatsoever is done always falls short. Its expectation is too great, nobody can fulfill it. So the unreal love always brings frustration, and the real love always brings fulfillment."
- by Osho from Love, Freedom, and Aloneness.
So Osho is referring to unconditional love clearly, which is the best kind of course. I wish us all this sort of blessing in love, be it romantic or otherwise.
Blessings,
Chatgirl
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