Mature peoples rises in LOVE

Immature people falling in love destroy
each other's freedom, create a
bondage, make a prison. Mature
persons in love help each other to be
free; they help each other to destroy all
sorts of bondages. And when love
flows with freedom there is beauty.
When love flows with dependence
there is ugliness.
A mature person does not fall in love,
he or she rises in love. Only immature
people fall; they stumble and fall down
in love. Somehow they were managing
and standing. Now they cannot
manage and they cannot stand. They
were always ready to fall on the
ground and to creep. They don't have
the backbone, the spine; they don't
have the integrity to stand alone.
A mature person has the integrity to
stand alone. And when a mature
person gives love, he or she gives
without any strings attached to it.
When two mature persons are in love,
one of the great paradoxes of life
happens, one of the most beautiful
phenomena: they are together and yet
tremendously alone. They are together
so much that they are almost one. Two
mature persons in love help each
other to become more free. There is
no politics involved, no diplomacy, no
effort to dominate. Only freedom and
love.
Osho