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Love Is Authentic Only When it Gives Freedom

Love is authentic only

when it gives freedom.

Let this be the criterion.

Love is

true only

when it does not interfere in the privacy of the other person.

It respects

his individuality,

his privacy.

But the lovers that you see around the world,

their whole effort is

that nothing should be private;

all secrets should be told to them.

They are afraid

of individuality;

they destroy each other's individuality,

and they hope

that by destroying each other,

their lives will become

a contentment, a fulfillment.

They simply become more and more miserable.

Be loving,

and remember: anything real

is always changing.

You have been given wrong notions

that

a true love

remains forever.

A true rose flower does not remain forever.

A living being himself

has to die one day.

Existence is

a constant change.

But the notion,

the idea

that love should be permanent if it is true...

and if love disappears one day,

then the natural corollary is that it was not true.

I want you to know;

love came suddenly;

it was not because of any effort on your part.

It came as a gift of nature.

At that time you would not have accepted it

if you had been worried

about its going suddenly one day.

The way it comes, it goes.

But there is no need to be worried,

because if one flower has faded,

other flowers will be coming.

Flowers are

going to come

forever,

but don't cling

to one flower.

Otherwise soon you will be clinging to a dead flower,

and that's what

the reality is:

people are clinging

to a dead love

that once was alive.

Now it is only a memory

and a pain

and you are stuck

because of respectability,

because of law.

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