Wherever there is love, God is - Love is God‏

A FAMILY is a higher unit than the couple, and so on and so forth. AND GOD IS nothing but THE COMMUNION OF ALL, THE GREATEST FAMILY OF ALL.
 
    That's why I GO ON CALLING THESE ORANGE PEOPLE MY FAMILY. I would like you to disappear in the whole. I would like you to be so absorbed in the whole that you remain individual, but you become part of a greater unity, bigger than you. MEANING ARISES IMMEDIATELY WHENEVER YOU BECOME PART OF A GREATER UNITY.
 
    WHEN A POET WRITES A POEM, MEANING ARISES -- because the poet is not alone; he has CREATED something. When a dancer dances, meaning arises. When a mother gives birth to a child, meaning arises. Left alone, cut from everything else, isolated like an island, you are meaningless. JOINED TOGETHER, YOU ARE MEANINGFUL. Bigger the whole, bigger is the meaning.
 
    That's why I say GOD IS THE BIGGEST CONCEIVABLE WHOLE, and without God you cannot attain to the highest meaning. GOD IS NOT A PERSON; God is not sitting somewhere. Those ideas are just stupid. GOD IS THE TOTAL PRESENCE OF EXISTENCE, THE BEING, the very ground of being.
 
    GOD EXISTS WHEREVER THERE IS UNION. Wherever there is Yoga, God comes into existence. You are walking alone, God is fast asleep. Then suddenly YOU SEE SOMEBODY AND YOU SMILE, GOD IS AWAKENED, the other has come in. Your smile is not isolated, it is a bridge. You have thrown a bridge towards the other. The other has also smiled, there has been a response. Between you both arises the space that I call God -- a little throb. When you come to the tree and you sit by the side of the tree, completely oblivious to the existence of the tree, God is fast asleep. Then suddenly you look at the tree, and an upsurge of feeling for the tree... AND GOD HAS ARISEN.
 
    WHEREVER THERE IS LOVE, GOD IS; WHEREVER THERE IS RESPONSE, GOD IS. God is the space. It exists wherever union exists. That's why I say LOVE IS THE PUREST POSSIBILITY OF GOD, because it is THE SUBTLEST UNION OF ENERGIES.
 
    Hence the insistence of the Bauls that LOVE IS GOD. Forget God, love will do. But never forget love, because God alone won't do.
 
OSHO
The Beloved
Vol 2, Ch #5: Die Living
am in Buddha Hall