If you ask me, I'm both Hindu and Greek. If you ask me, I will say love is a paradox. It is very paradoxical phenomenon. Don't try to reduce to one pole; both polarities are needed. the other is needed, but in deep love the other disappears. If you watch two lovers, they are two and one together. That's the paradox of love and that's the beauty of it. They are two, yes, they are two; and yet they are not two, they are one. If this oneness has not happened then love is not possible. They may be doing something else i the name of love. If they are still two and not one also, then love has not happened. And if you are just alone and there's nobody else, then too love is not possible. Love is a paradoxical phenomenon. It needs two in the first place, and in the last place it needs two to exist as one. It is the greatest enigma -- it is the greatest puzzle.
If you have loved somebody, you will understand what I mean. You know the other is the other, and yet deep down you feel something has been bridged. It is as if traveling in a sea you come across an island. It is separate from the continent, yes. But deep down, underneath the sea, the land is one. It is joined with the continent -- it is not really separate. It is separate yet not separate; that is what love is.
So if you ask me, I will say it is possible to love yourself, but you have to divide yourself into two. Then you will have to become the lover and the beloved both. And it is also possible to love somebody else, but then you have to become one. Love is something that happens between two persons, but when it happens they are no longer two, they become one.
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