Dependency is a form of lack of freedom that some people
impose on pets and
circus animals in exchange for affection and
for doing tricks. |
People claiming they get more from animals than from people, probably demand more from animals than they can give to people and animals themselves. Such people are not balanced and are selling others short.It is harder to let a person be free than it is to let an animal be free; all that is needed to let an animal be free is to leave it alone in its natural habitat. For a human being, rather the opposite applies. The most that love can give anyone is freedom. |
Here follows a section about human love from
"Love is like a bird in the sky"
(Osho publications). Love gives freedom. Love that doesn't give freedom, is not love. Love is not thirst for power. How can you
dominate someone you love? How can you make
him dependent and still be loving? But what
happens in the world in the name of love
is something else: the lust for power, wanting
to control others. Of course independence
is inadmissible then. You do everything
to make the other identical to yourself.
You are afraid of the other person's freedom,
because freedom escapes control and freedom
is unpredictable. So all so-called love
tries to kill freedom in any way it can
- and as soon as freedom is destroyed, love
dies.
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Lovers are always afraid. There is the fear that
love comes as a cool breeze. You cannot produce
it, it isn't something that can be produced
- it comes. But everything that comes of itself
can also leave of itself. This is a natural
phenomenon. When love comes, flowers blossom
inside you, a song erupts in your heart, a
desire to dance but with a secret fear. What
will happen if this breeze that has reached
you - cool and scented - leaves you tomorrow?
. . . because you are not the edge of existence.
And the breeze is only a guest - it stays
with you for as long as it wants and can leave
at any time. Other related subjecs are "self control", "respect", "involvement" and "self-realization". More about the relation between love and freedom on: "inner freedom" and "the sane society (Erich Fromm)". See also our articles on keeping pets. |