The capacity to be alone is the capacity to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it is not.

It is an existential truth: only those people who are capable of being alone are capable of love,

of sharing, of going into the deepest core of the other person-

without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other,

without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other.

They allow the other absolute freedom, because they know that if the other leaves,

they will be as happy as they are now.

Their happiness cannot be taken by the other,

because it is not given by the other.

~Osho

it’s fine to be blue and green….

inquiry for today~ colors? what soothes?

blue and green and all the fading lights…..

Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and being alone won’t either,

for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love.

You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You have to risk your heart.

You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken,

or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes too near,

let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps,

wasting their sweetness.

Tell yourself that you tasted as many as you could.

~Louise Erdrich