I can teach you the art of living; that implies the art of dying, you need not learn it separately.
I can teach you the art of living; that implies the art of dying, you need not learn it separately.
The man who knows how to live, knows how to die.
The man who knows how to fall in love, knows when the moment has come to fall out of it.
He falls out of it gracefully, with a goodbye, with gratitude -- but only the man who knows how to love.
People don't know how to love, and then they don't know how to say goodbye when the time has come to say it.
If you love you will know that everything begins and everything ends, and there is a time for beginning and there is a time for ending, and there is no wound in it.
One is not wounded, one simply knows the season is over.
One is not in despair, one simply understands, and one thanks the other,
"You gave me so many beautiful gifts. You gave me new visions of life, you opened a few windows I might never have opened on my own.
Now the time has come that we separate and our ways part."
Not in anger, not in rage, not with a grudge, not with any complaint, but with
tremendous gratitude, with great love, with thankfulness in the heart.
If you know how to love, you will know how to separate.
Your separation will also have a beauty and a grace.
And the same is the case with life; if you know how to live, you will know how to die. Your death will be tremendously beautiful.
OshO 💕
The book of wisdom
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