Love has many flavors… love has many dimensions, many nuances. Love is not a single thing. It is very rich, tremendously rich. It has many aspects to it, it is multi-faceted. It is like a diamond: it has many facets and every facet gives it richness.
“Only a connoisseur” – one who has loved in many ways, one who has loved, lived courageously, dangerously, one who knows all the flavors of love…
Have you watched? – ‘love’ does not express all. It is a single word. All the ancient languages have many words for love, because there are so many loves. The English language is so poor in that way, hmm? – because you also love your car and love your woman and love your house and you love your country and you love your child and you love your mother. Only one word! You love a particular brand of cigarettes. It is very poor, because love has so many facets.
When you love a child, you love differently. It is not the same love as when you love a woman. It has no passion. It has compassion, but it has no passion. When you love your mother, it is totally different: it has reverence, it has deep gratitude. But when you love a woman it is totally different. It has great intensity, almost maddening – but it is not the way you love your mother. You love your friend: totally different. It is affection, but not in the same way
…Only a connoisseur of the flavors of love
can comprehend the language of a lover’s heart,
others have no clue.
Yes it is a language. A single word will not do, it is a complete language. And once you know, you will be simply surprised: you can touch somebody’s hand like a friend and then the touch has a different flavor. And you can touch somebody’s hand like a lover then the touch has again a different flavor.
…On the path of love, trust is the most essential thing. On the path of meditation, you can move without trust. On the path of meditation you can move without surrender, but on the path of love, without surrender, without trust, there is no go because it is the very first door. Love demand so much, it demands almost the impossible – and on the first step. Love is easy but very demanding. That’s why even though the path is easy, very few people travel it. The path of meditation is very difficult but not so demanding. That’s why the path is difficult and arduous, yet still many people travel it.
Osho "The Beloved" Volume one
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