Love

"Liking and loving are different, but there is no difference between ordinary love and spiritual love.

Love is spiritual. I have never come across ordinary love; the ordinary thing is liking. Love is never ordinary - it can't be, it is intrinsically extraordinary. It is not of this world.

When you say to a woman or a man 'I love you' you are simply saying 'I cannot be deceived by your body, I have seen you. Your body may become old but I have seen you, the bodiless you. I have seen your innermost core, the core that is divine.' Liking is superficial. Love penetrates and goes to the very core of the person, touches the very soul of the person.

No love is ordinary. Love cannot be ordinary, otherwise it is not love. To call love ordinary is to misunderstand the whole phenomenon of love. Love is never ordinary, love is always extraordinary, always spiritual. That is the difference between liking and love: liking is material, love is spiritual." ~ Osho