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We have forgotten the language, so the language has to be learned and this 'as if' is the language.
[To someone who is leaving for the West:]
Mm, you can go -- and help my work there. You can help many people....
I will make you capable! You can be of much help. People never know their potentialities unless they try.
I have never come across any human being who is ordinary. They may live ordinary... they may die ordinary. They may never come to know what treasures they were carrying within -- that's another thing. But I have never come across a human being who is simply ordinary. Everybody is unique and extraordinary... and nobody actualises his potentialities. At the most we potentialise five percent. Ninety-five percent of our treasures remain untouched.
So when I say you can, believe it. You can! If you think you can, you can. If you think you cannot, you cannot.
[The sannyasin says: I am a psychoanalyst. I am in doubt whether I should go on with this work... because sometimes it seems impossible.]
Yes, you go on. Now you will be a better psychoanalyst.
... I know. The human mind is in such a mess that there are times when one feels it is impossible to do anything. But to understand this impossibility is not to become hopeless. Rather, let it become a challenge. It is difficult, very difficult, and human problems are such that it seems there is no solution for them.
But go on fighting. Take the challenge and go on trying. I don't say that you may be able to find solutions for others, but through this struggle you will be able to find solutions for yourself... because each human being is you reflected. And whenever you are helping somebody else, you are helping yourself in a subtle way, because these problems are your problems also. In each human problem you will have the reflection of your own problem, more or less; the difference is only of degree.
And to be in such a therapeutic work one should feel happy. We may not be able to do much, but we try. You may not be able to destroy the darkness, but still we burn a small candle. That too is enough in a dark night. That too gives hope, warmth...
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