Questioner: But why is society against the heart?
Osho: “The heart creates inconvenience for the status quo, for the established order of things, for the vested interest. Head functions through logic. It can be convinced for certain purposes. It can be argued, persuaded, and conditioned.
It can be made Christian, Hindu, Mohammedan. It can be made Communist, Fascist, Socialist. Anything can be done with the head. And whatsoever you feed the head it goes on repeating it. It can’t bring a single thing new, it is never original.
The heart lives through love and love cannot be conditioned. It is essentially rebellion. One never knows where love will lead you. It is unpredictable, it is spontaneous, it never repeats the old, and it always responds to the present moment.
The heart lives in the present, the head lives in the past. Hence the head is always traditional, conventional and the heart is always revolutionary, rebellious.”
osho.com, Osho, No Man Is an Island, Talk #10
