OSHOMEDITATION DICTIONARY – Abstractions

Osho – Abstractions

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It is always simple to love abstract things. It is more simple to love humanity than human beings, because loving humanity you are not risking anything. A single human being is far more dangerous than the whole of humanity. Humanity is a word, there is no corresponding reality to it. The human being is a reality, and when you come across a reality there are going to be good times, bad times, pain, pleasure, ups and downs, highs and lows, agonies and ecstasies. Loving humanity, there will he no ecstasy and no agony. In fact, loving humanity is a way of avoiding human beings; because you can't love human beings you start loving humanity just to deceive your self.

Avoid abstractions.

Excerpted from 'The Wisdom Of The Sands', Vol. 1 by Osho