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that if you look at your life retrospectively, you will see that everything that has happened, happened as it should have. But the future unknown.
Never be confined because of the past. Future is an opening... Let it remain open. Future is greater than anything that has gone in the past. The past is limited. It is already finished and gone, already dust.
And when I say be true to love, I mean be in love with love, and never waste a single moment without love.
Why wait and sit and become miserable? If you become too miserable, you will attract somebody who likes misery. He may fall in love with you -- and then if you become happy, he will be unhappy, because he was searching for someone who is in misery.
Be happy, so that you only attract happy people... happiness protects. You attract only people who love happiness, and you think of life in terms of celebration, festivity. Whomsoever we attract, we attract. It has been noted that people fall in love with the same type of person again and again and again. They never learn.
Learn out of each experience. Life is a learning for love. If love succeeds, you come closer and closer to God. If love fails, then too, you come closer and closer to God -- because then one starts thinking of meditation. If love succeeds there is no need to think about meditation.
You must have heard -- somebody, a young man, asked Socrates whether he should get married, knowing well that Socrate's wife was a very very nagging, ugly, and cruel woman, who used to beat Socrates.
Socrates said, 'You should get married. If you get a wife like mine, you will become a great philosopher (laughter). And if you get a good wife -- perfectly good! There are only two possibilities, but don't miss them!'
So for one month dance without any technique. Just go really crazy. This is going to change your complete attitude, your energy quality.
[A sannyasin involved in film-making, said that he would like to use sound and colour in his films in such a way that it created a certain vibration in the audience. He asked Osho if this was a good idea.]
Gurdjieff was working on those lines, particularly
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