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he will be vulnerable, so he has created a hard shell around himself. There is no need to fight with the hard shell. Just look around him, circle him. Somewhere there must be a loophole. There always is, because if there is no loophole he will die -- the toughness will become a grave. He must have some holes from where he gets air. So don't be worried about his toughness -- that must just be his facade. Tough people are beautiful people, if you can enter them.
If you enter people who are not tough, you will not find them delicate, because they have nothing inside to protect -- that's why they are not tough. They are very hard inside, so there is no need to be hard on the outside. So life is very paradoxical ! People who are very delicate, butter-like, inside are very hard, stone-like. Their butter-likeness is just a deception; they know their toughness on the inside. They put their butter on the outside to attract people because there is no other way.
So next time when you go back to this person... he is a potential sannyasin, don't be worried... find a loophole, and convert him to sannyas!
[Chinmaya said that in his work as a goldsmith he found that he could only work spasmodically, in spurts, and that he would like to be able to change that.]
But that may be your type.
There are two types of people. One type goes on working continuously. His production may not be of great quality, but it is constant. It may not be of very high quality -- it may be mediocre -- but you can rely on him; he goes on working every day.
And then there is another type. This type is really the artist type. If the work is going to be of high quality, you cannot produce it continuously; it is impossible. It is only on and off. Sometimes you are feeling high, flowing, and then you produce something beautiful, but then the energy is gone. Then you feel low and you don't feel any creativity. any challenge. But all the great artists are of that type.
The first type is the worker, the production manager, the producer, the mediocre. He makes things of utility, but not of great art. The second type is the artist. Sometimes he brings a jewel out
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