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through his life, one conclusion seems absolutely certain -- that people cannot live without lies.
Truth is dangerously. Lies are very sweet, but unreal. Delicious... you go on saying sweet nothings to your lover, and he goes on whispering in your ear sweet -- but -- nothings. And meanwhile life goes on slipping out of your hands, and everybody is coming closer and closer to death.
Before death comes, remember one thing -- that love has to be lived before death happens. Otherwise you live in vain, and the whole of your life will be futile -- a desert. Before death comes, make it a certainty that love has happened. But that is possible only with the truth. So be true. Risk everything for truth, and never risk truth for anything else.
Let this be the fundamental law -- even if I have to sacrifice myself, my life, I am going to sacrifice it for truth but truth I wi!! never sacrifice for anything -- and tremendous happiness will be yours; undreamed of benedictions will shower on you.
Once you are true, everything else becomes possible. If you are false -- just a facade, a painted thing, a face, a mask -- nothing is possible. Because with the false, only false happens; with the truth, truth.
I understand your problem. That is the problem of all lovers -- that deep down they are afraid. They go on wondering whether this relationship will be strong enough to bear truth. But how can you know beforehand? There is no a priori knowledge. One has to move into it to know it.
How are you to know, sitting inside your house, whether you will be able to withstand the storm and the wind outside? You have never been in the storm. Go and see. Trial and error is the only way -- go and see. Maybe you will be defeated, but even in that defeat you will have become stronger than you are right now.
If one experience defeats you -- and another, and another -- by and by the very going through the storm will make you stronger and stronger and stronger. A day comes when one simply starts delighting in the storm, one simply starts dancing in the storm. Then the storm is not the enemy. That too is an opportunity -- a wild opportunity -- to be.
Remember,
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