cobotis:

“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…”

— Osho (via cobotis)