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A man who practices the mysteries of love will be in contact not with a
reflection, but with truth itself. To know this blessing of human nature, one
can find no better helper than love.
I have been commenting my whole life on love, in thousands of different ways, but
the message is the same. Just one fundamental thing has to be remembered: It is not the
love that you think is love. Neither is Socrates speaking about that love nor am I
speaking about it.
The love you know is nothing but a biological urge; it depends on your chemistry and
your hormones. It can be changed very easily—a small change in your chemistry and the
love that you thought was the “ultimate truth” will simply disappear. You have been
calling lust “love.” This distinction should be remembered.
Socrates says, “A man who practices the mysteries of love . . .” Lust has no
mysteries. It is a simple biological game; every animal, every bird, every tree knows
about it. Certainly the love that has mysteries is going to be totally different from the
love with which you are ordinarily acquainted.
A man who practices the mysteries of love will be in contact not with the
reflection, but with truth itself.
This love that can become a contact with truth itself arises only out of your
consciousness—not out of your body, but out of your innermost being. Lust arises out of
your body, love arises out of your consciousness. But people don’t know their
consciousness, and the misunderstanding goes on and on—their bodily lust is taken for
love.