Alone!

From the many works of Osho, I present a couple of paragraphs from "Darkness", which holds immense enlightenment ! Enjoy

"And man has not learned yet to know the beauties of his loneliness. He is always hankering for

some relationship, to be with someone – with a friend, with a father, with a wife, with a husband, with

a child... with someone.

He has created societies, he has created clubs. He has created parties – political, ideological.

He has created religions. But the basic need of all is to forget somehow that you are alone.

Being associated with so many crowds, you are trying to forget something which in darkness suddenly

is remembered – that you were born alone, that you will die alone, that whatever you do, you live alone. Aloneness is something so essential to your being,there is no way to avoid it.

You can befool yourself and deceive yourself; you can pretend that you are not alone – you have a

wife, you have children, you have friends – but it is all pretension. You know and everybody knows that the wife is alone as much as you are alone, and two alonenesses joined together do not change the situation; instead they make it worse.

As I see it, why lovers are continuously fighting – there may be thousand other reasons, but those

reasons are superficial. The basic reason is that they had chosen the other as a beloved, as a lover,

to destroy their loneliness – and it has not happened. On the contrary, the presence of the other

makes them more aware of their loneliness".