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IN NOT BEING ABLE TO GET IT

YOU GET IT

The moment you understand that you cannot possess it... 

and you drop your possessiveness... 

it is there.

And you have got it.

The moment you understand that love cannot be possessed, a great understanding has arisen in you. And now you will have it, and you will have it forever. 

You cannot exhaust it.

But you will have it only... 

when you have got the point that it cannot be possessed. 

That there is no way to get it.

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This is the Zen paradox. 

Zen is the path of paradox. 

It says that... 

if you want to possess God... 

please don't possess him...

and you will possess him. 

if you want to possess love... 

don't possess, and it is there... 

and it is always yours. 

You cannot lose it. 

It is not possible... 

to lose it.

~osho~

zen path of paradox (i)

(1977) - chapter 1