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same old rotten.... It is like a gramophone record. It goes on repeating the same song again and again and again.
Always do something new, so something new becomes possible. Or always be something new, because when you are new you attract new things towards you. So perfectly good, mm? You should be grateful -- and much more is going to happen, so get ready!
[A sannyasin says: I keep having this feeling that I am really ugly. I call it my 'warty witch syndrome'. And I'm hypnotising my friends and people that I'm meeting here, that it's not much fun looking at me.]
But who told you that witches are not beautiful? (laughter) I have come across many witches who are very beautiful.
... beautiful witches! Ponder over it! And go on spreading this; this is a very good idea -- telling people 'Don't look at me; it is not much fun'. They will look more! (laughter) That's how their minds work -- you have found a clue.
The mind goes on creating unnecessary problems. But that is the whole function of the mind -- to create baseless problems. And once it creates them, you are caught, and you try to solve them. Don't try to solve them. Simply see the baselessness in it. The very irrelevance has to be seen, that's all. If you start doing something, then you have accepted the problem. Just see the irrelevance of it.
Every face is beautiful. Every face is differently beautiful. Every face is a separate face, and every face is unique. In fact there is no comparison and no possibility of any comparison. If you accept, you will become beautiful. Through acceptance, beauty happens. If you yourself deny and reject, then you will become crippled and ugly. Now there is a vicious circle.
First you reject; you don't accept -- then you become ugly. Then others will start feeling the ugliness, and you will say 'Right, so that's true. I was thinking on the right lines'. So you reject more. This is how the mind goes on fulfilling itself. And all its prophecies are bound to be fulfilled once you miss the first step. The first step is that you are you.
There is no criterion of beauty. In fact for almost five thousand years philosophers have
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