Thursday 2 April 2015

Never go too close.

If you move in too much, if you come too close, you will create enmity.
Never go too close.
Always keep a little distance. Kahlil Gibran in his wonderful book THE PROPHET says lovers should be like pillars of a temple – supporting the same roof, but not too close to each other. Like pillars....
If they come too close, the whole temple will fall; if they go too far away, then too the whole temple will fall.
They cannot come too close; they cannot go too far.
They should be like pillars of a temple,supporting the same roof.
This is the art, the knack.
If you want your love to be eternal, don’t come too close, because if you come too close then the need to go far away arises.
If you come too close then you trespass on each other’s freedom – and everybody needs a space of his own.
Love is beautiful when it co-exists with your space; if it starts trespassing on your space then it becomes poisonous.
And lovers always behave foolishly and stupidly. When they are in love they don’t listen to anything; they try to come too close and then they destroy their love.
OshO 
Tao: The Three Treasures, Vol 1



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