Osho : Love and Fear

Love, Fear and Respect

That always happens with love, mm? If you love a person, you are afraid also. But that fear is good –it is part of love. When fear is there and there is no love, it is a negative thing. When there is love and fear, that creates one of the greatest values in life. That’s what we call respect.

When love is together with fear, in the alchemy of the mind, a new chemical arises. That is respect. Love alone will not give you respect. You love a person –your lover, your friend –but there is no fear; then there is no respect. You fear your enemy. but there is no love so there is no respect. When you love a person and fear also arises, a totally new quality comes in –that’s what respect is.

Osho went on to say that God is both a mystery and a terror; that you can love God but you have to fear Him also. God creates both values in you –fear and love. This two-faceted aspect of God has created a conflict for many people because they think that God is to be either feared or loved, but that one cannot do both. Osho said that both attitudes miss....

The very idea of God creates in you a new value not ordinarily known in life. You love Him, that’s why you fear Him.

Why does fear arise when you love a person? –because you may not prove worthy. When you love God, a fear arises that you may not prove worthy of him. You start trembling. You love Him, you would like to prove worthy, but who knows? –you may not. You would like His love to shower on you, but who knows whether you have earned it yet or not? Fear arises.

Love arises because of God –fear arises because of you. It is very natural –and good. Fear alone is a disvalue. With love, the quality changes completely.

Osho
                                 


          

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