Have You Ever Thought About It?

 Have you ever thought about it? Is your wife (or husband) really known to you? Is there really a way to know the wife or the husband or the child? A child is born to you. Do you know him -who he is? But you never ask such uncomfortable questions. You immediately give him a name so that you know who he is...To forget that some stranger has come, you label him...Then you start managing his character -what he should do, what he should not do -so that you know, and you can predict him...

There are moments, some rare moments, in which you suddenly become aware of this. Sitting by the side of your beloved, suddenly you become aware that you are far apart. Suddenly you look at the face of your beloved and you cannot recognize who she is or who he is. But you avoid such moments immediately. You start talking: you say something, you start planning...That's why people don't sit in silence -because silence creates a restlessness. In silence, the fiction of familiarity is broken.

OSHO