If you cannot fight with your beloved

“If you cannot fight with your beloved, if you cannot be angry, then the authenticity of love is lost…

If I am angry and I suppress my anger, then when I love, the suppressed anger is present, and this deadens my love. If I have not been true in my anger, in my rage, I cannot be true in my love either. If you are true, you are true in both.

Two things have to be done in order to rise above the mind: to meditate, and then to touch the level of negation of the mind within yourself. Then you will possess a love that will have no opposite pole… But while you are within the mind, it is better to be true than to be false. And if you are really true, a unique phenomenon will happen. You will become bored with the meaningless movement between the poles… The suppressed mind never becomes truly aware; it is possessed by opposites.

Be true and suffer reality. Suffering is useful. Suffer anger, suffer love, suffer hatred. Remember only one thing: never be insincere.”

From Osho, Book of Secrets, Volume 1

Translated from Bulgarian.