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We go to the doctor when we feel physically ill and to a guru when emotionally. Many times in history, sages have healed broken hearts and mended lives that could not be reached through the most advanced medical instruments.

What they seem to use is the healing of words and experiences, of life lived and storms weathered. This is why their presence lingers years after their passing away. One such guru was Osho . An Indian mystic and spiritual teacher who gained a global following in the 1970s and 80s and continues to date. Love is one of the most encompassing emotions a human can feel and while falling in love feels as easy as breathing, falling out of it feels akin to dying.

However, Osho said some uncomfortable truths about the emotions and feelings that still ring true to date. Here's what they are:

Relationship destroys love

According to , love is a moment-to-moment bond that ebbs and flows. Putting the label of 'relationship' over it binds it in a rigid structure that creates a false sense of security. Thus, people who are often just lonely end up entering into romantic relationships where love ends up dying.

Unworthy of love is a myth

People have been continually told that they are unworthy which renders them incapable of desiring any kind of adventure. Once a person accepts the idea of unworthiness, they naturally close up to any kind of new experiences, be it love. It becomes a boundary they are not willing to cross over, due to the fear of expected consequences. Once you ditch the boundaries you have created inside your mind, any such concepts of unworthiness also disappear. "That you are is enough to prove that existence needs you, loves you, nourishes you, respects you."

Love is nourishment in itself

Osho said that 'Love is nourishment in itself.' The more you love, the more space you find for it to spread in and around you. There is no limit to love and it does not have to change shape or form depending on the person. Existential love, does not know any boundaries and thus does not create any division.

Only love and its failure can throw you inside.

The failure of love is normal and it is this experience that makes one delve deep within. "If you are still hoping that love can succeed, then you are yet under age," said Osho. If you want to learn the meaning of existence, you have to jump within yourself and only love and its failure can help you do so.

Real love is capable of being alone

Real love does not cling to the other in limitation, it expands. If you love a person, you can trust them and their freedom too. In love, one finds the capability to be alone as it creates such a deep ocean around you that you become an island in it. You are more powerful, centred, rooted and loved and this balances you out more than any other kind of stability. "If they are dependent on each other, it is not a togetherness – it is a slavery, it is a bondage," said Osho.