OSHO: The Fear of Intimacy

Osho puts the human mind under the microscope as never before, analyzes it down to the smallest wrinkle. — And here is Osho’s response to the question: Of my many fears, the one of which I am most aware is that of intimacy. I am like a hit and run driver in my relationships with people. Could you speak to me of my fear of intimacy? — “Everybody is afraid of intimacy. It is another thing whether you are aware of it or not. Intimacy means exposing yourself before a stranger. We are all strangers — nobody knows anybody. We are even strangers to ourselves, because we don’t know who we are. Intimacy brings you close to a stranger. You have to drop all your defenses; only then, intimacy is possible. And the fear is that if you drop all your defenses, all your masks, who knows what the stranger is going to do with you?” — Join the OSHO Talks Video Translation Project: www.oshotalks.info — OSHO International Foundation – http

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