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СКАЧАТЬ man too.

      For man this fire is the anguish of love.

      It is a blessing when this fire enters a person’s life;

      it is the fruit of infinite prayers, infinite births.

      It is the intensity of thirst that turns finally into love,

      but unfortunately few are able to welcome it

      because few can recognize love in the form of anguish.

      Love is not a throne, it is a cross;

      but those who gladly offer

      themselves to it attain the very highest throne.

      The cross can be seen, the throne cannot –

      it is always hidden behind the cross.

      And even Jesus hesitated for a moment;

      even his heart cried out: Father, why hast thou forsaken me?

      But the next moment he remembered and said:

      Thy will be done.

      That was enough:

      the cross became a throne

      and death a new life.

      In the moment of revolution

      between one statement and the next

      Christ descended into Jesus.

      Your suffering is intense and a new birth is at hand;

      be happy, be grateful.

      Don’t be afraid of death,

      be thankful.

      It is the tidings of a new birth.

      And the old must die to give birth to the new;

      the seed must break to blossom into the flower.

      142. Love.

      What is suppressed becomes attractive,

      what is negated, beckons!

      Only alertness to the mind’s games brings freedom.

      Negation does not really negate,

      on the contrary, it beckons.

      The mind plays around the forbidden

      like the tongue around the gap of an extracted tooth.

      A small shopkeeper in London once caused a sensation.

      He hung in his show window

      a black curtain with a small hole at the center;

      under the hole was written in large letters:

      Peeping strictly forbidden.

      Naturally, it brought the traffic to a standstill!

      Crowds gathered around the shop

      jostling one another for a peep through the curtain.

      There they saw nothing but a few towels –

      it was just a small towel shop

      and the shopkeeper had devised this sure-fire method

      of increasing his sales.

      It worked like magic.

      Man’s mind works the same way

      and he becomes trapped by it.

      Therefore – always be wary of negation,

      opposition, suppression.

      143. Love and blessings.

      Live the truth,

      for there is no other way to find it.

      Become the truth,

      for there is no other way to know it.

      You cannot know truth through words,

      not through the scriptures,

      nor through learning, study, contemplation.

      Truth is within, in the emptiness within.

      In the state of no-mind,

      in the mind free of desires where only awareness is,

      there truth manifests itself.

      Truth simply is;

      it has not to be found,

      simply uncovered.

      The lid of gold covering it is the ego.

      Ego is darkness;

      die, and become light!

      Where the darkness of the ego is no more

      there, in that emptiness, truth is;

      and that is truth,

      and that is bliss,

      and that is immortality.

      Do not seek it,

      just die and it is there.

      144. Love.

      I am glad to receive your letter.

      Yes, this much suffering has to be gone through –

      it is the birth pangs of our own rebirth.

      And going back is not possible

      for where is the past to which to return?

      Time demolishes the steps we climb to reach the present.

      There is no going back –

      only going forward is possible,

      forward and forward –

      and the journey is endless!

      There is no goal, no destination,

      only resting places,

      where the tents are dismantled as soon as they are pitched.

      But why this fear of anarchy?

      All systems are false –

      life is anarchic, insecure.

      He who seeks security dies before his death.

      Why this hurry to die?

      Death СКАЧАТЬ