The capacity to be alone is the capacity to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it's 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 another 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
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Since the dawn of time man has been fighting to find out why they are here on planet Earth. They have searched in order to find out what they are, where they come from, and how they exist in the world. The answers that have been found in history are that humans are either born in a mother’s womb or in a womb of a woman. We are born with our ability to love, but when it comes to sex, hormones create the need to seek after another person.

This is when the capacity to be alone becomes important. To be alone is to be free of dependency on another person or what they need from you in return for being with you.

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