Love: Live ur life!

Love
Osho speaks on a passage from one of his favorite books, The Book of Mirdad:
'Man made prisoner by the love of a woman and woman made prisoner by the love of a man are equally unfit for freedom's precious crown. But man and woman made as one by love – inseparable, indistinguishable – are verily entitled to the prize.'
'If love is understood as the meeting of two souls, not just a sexual, biological meeting of male and female hormones, then love can give you great wings, it can give you great insights into life. And lovers can become for the first time friends.' - Osho
I have been wanting to write about this for a long long time. However, this puts me to lots of unease and that might be evdident in the first few lines. This unease is not because the emotion is unknown to me but because i have always tried to come across as a very stoic character.Love,however, has been a very integral part of my life always. My tryst with Zen buddhism has made this even stronger.Before i go further please take and time to read these lines. These lines show the influence of my mentor Arvind chauhan, my physics teacher,guru and friend.
" Teachings are the understanding of one individual.
teachings are guidelines by someone who has travelled the path before
Teachings are not enlightenment,
they are the experiences of another individual"
while my aim is not to make the discussion very spiritual (ironically love and spirituality cannot be seperated). the only point i want to stress is that love is a very beautiful emotion. Yet every one has his own set of experiences and beliefs. And it is your liberty to believe in me or not.
My tryst with love has been a very interesting one.
For me love is the courage to open my heart. The ability to give and recieve.when u love all the fear dissapears. When u are afraid all the love dissapears. Love has no bounds. (How can it have bounds???) Do u think twice before u admire the beauty of a dew drop sitting on a leaf.
when u feel at one with existence this is love.
And believe me being able to love someone is a great quality. Not every one can love in a selfless manner. (Actually everyone can but the social conditioning is too much to allow us to love)
Do u not get immersed in the beauty of the nature and forget everything! U have had these loving moments with the nature because you have never expected anything from nature, atleast at that very moment. What then stops us from loving humans! Why does a man always want to earn more than the woman he supposedly 'loves'! Love demands mutual respect not ego. since our society is full of fools who cannot love, it had created rituals like marriage. while marriage is a wonderful way of celebrating a commitment, the beauty of the ceremony cannot be realised till true love and commitment is there.
But sadly lust drives marriage more than love does. People have always pointed to me that love marriages fail. I ALways feel that the person whom you love, you will always be ready to do anything for him/her, u'll forgive him always as long as love is there. So love marriages never fail. the only things that fail are the agreements made in the name of love. Love is a very confusing thing. my writing discourses can never explain to you what love is. You have to love to feel what love is. Next time u see a rainbow look for the beauty as u did when u were a child and u will know exactly what love is. U shall never fail in love then!
Lemme now address the fears of those who fear to propose... to the ones they love..I can understand... the fear is natural. Don't try to avoid it and don't try to suppress it. Don't try to forget it, otherwise it will be difficult to get over it. Accept it -- it is natural. It is absolutely natural going back to old friends and not being the old person at all. Your friends will be very much in confusion about how to relate to you, because we get accustomed to a certain pattern
Feel free to contact me always with your comments.With love to all!