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“As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.”

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Annie Dillard is an American author known for her unique writing style and profound observations of nature. Born on April 30, 1945, she has written several notable works, including 'Pilgrim at Tinker Creek' and 'Under the Sun'. more

“There is a fixation in the human mind for structures, because in a structured life one feels secure, one knows where one is, one knows where one stands in relationship to the other. It seems that because man is born in the womb of the mother and for nine months remains in a structure, that continues deep down in the psyche - and man is always trying to find a structure somewhere.”

Knows Men Feels Trying Mind Humans Seems Mother Born Relationship Months Remains Structure Nine Secure Human Mind Womb Always Trying Deep Down Nine Months Fixation

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“If he loves, he wants to make a relationship out of it immediately! He wants to get married. He wants to create a certain conditioning. He wants to make it a contract. Or he enters a church, or he enters a political party, or he enters into any club and he wants to be structured, he wants to know where he stands in the hierarchy, in what relationship. He wants to have an identity - that 'I am this.' He does not want to remain uncertain. And life is uncertain. Only death is certain.”

Ifs Knows Want Doe Political Life Is Certain Church Party Relationship Identity Married Clubs Contracts Uncertain Political Parties Hierarchy Conditioning

Author:Rajneesh

“Be a loving person rather than in a love relationship - because relationships happen one day and disappear another day. They are flowers; in the morning they bloom, by the evening they are gone.”

Persons Happens Morning Gone Relationship Flower One Day Disappear Evening Love Relationship Another Day Loving Person

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“But people find it very difficult to be a loving person, so they create a relationship - and befool that way that 'Now I am a loving person because I am in a relationship.' And the relationship may be just one of monopoly, possessiveness, exclusiveness.”

People Way May Persons Difficult Relationship Just One Monopoly Possessiveness Loving Person

Author:Rajneesh

“Relationship may be just out of fear, may not have anything to do with love. Relationship may be just a kind of security - financial or something else. The relationship is needed only because love is not there. Relationship is a substitute.”

Kind May Love Is Relationship Security Needed Financial Substitutes Love Relationship

Author:Rajneesh

“Become alert! Relationship destroys love, destroys the very possibility of its birth.”

Relationship Possibility Birth

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“Then relationship happens. Before that it is just an empty name. Relationship cannot happen before the egos are gone.”

Happens Names Gone Relationship Ego Empty

Author:Rajneesh

“You only believe that it is a relationship. It is a conflict, it is enmity, it is jealousy, it is aggression, it is domination, it is possession, and many things - but not relationship. How can you relate with two egos there? When there are two egos, then there are four persons.”

Believe Persons Two Four Relationship Conflict Ego Possession Relate Aggression Domination Enmity

Author:Rajneesh

“In every bed you will find four persons sleeping together. It is very rare to find a double bed, because then four persons are there overcrowding it. The wife is there and the ego, and the husband is there and the ego - husband is hidden behind his ego, wife is hidden behind her ego, and those two egos go on making love. The real contact never happens.”

Persons Two Real Happens Together Sleep Behinds Four Wife Relationship Goes On Bed Husband Ego Contact Making Love Overcrowding Sleeping Together

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“The word relationship is beautiful. The original meaning of the root from which the word to relate comes is exactly the same as to respond. Relationship comes from that word respond. If you have any image of your wife or husband, you cannot respond, and hence relate, to the truth of the person. And we all go on carrying images.”

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