"The capacity to be alone is the capacity to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it is not. It is an existential truth: only those people who are capable of being alone are capable of love, of sharing, of going into the deepest core of the other person - without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other. They allow the other absolute freedom, because they know that if the other leaves, they will be as happy as they are now. Their happiness cannot be taken by the other, because it is not given by the other."
— Osho (via la-prospettiva-di-me)
(via connectnothing)
A Videopoem by Martín Olaciregui.: Cyborg Manifesto - Donna Haraway
The self is the one that is not dominated, who knows that by the service of the other. The other is the one that holds the future, who knows that by the experience of domination, which gives the lie to the autonomy of the self.
To be one is to be autonomous, to be powerful, to be God; but to be…
