Love can never possess. Love is giving freedom to the other. Love is an unconditional gift, it is not a bargain.

Nobody has the power to take two steps together; you can take only one step at a time.

I love, because my love is not dependent on the object of love. My love is dependent on my state of being. So whether the other person changes, becomes different, friend turns into a foe, does not matter, because my love was never dependent on the other person. My love is my state of being. I simply love.

But I am all for love, and I am against marriage, particularly the arranged kind, because the arranged marriage gives you satisfaction. And love? - love can never satisfy you. It gives you more and more thirst for a better and better love, it makes you more and more long for it, it gives you tremendous discontentment. And that discontent is the beginning of the search for God. When love fails many times, you start looking for a new kind of lover, a new kind of love, a new quality of love. That love affair is prayer, meditation, sannyas.

Illusions are bound to be shattered

Only meditation, only silence, only transcending beyond your mind is going to give you contentment and fulfillment.

Accept yourself as you are. And that is the most difficult thing in the world, because it goes against your training, education, your culture.