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I say persuade it, seduce it. I say fall in love with it embrace it, and absorb it. You will be richer for that
Anger absorbed, a man becomes vital, potent. Anger absorbed, your life takes a flame. Anger absorbed, vou live not a lukewarm life. You live intensely... and that is the only way to live.
Your torch should burn from both ends. In being lukewarm there is no charm. So accept ... go into it. And you will be very happy once you can bring those wild animals back into your home.
[The Encounter group are present. A participant says: It's hard for me to change... I can't make it.... ]
Do you want to? If you don't want to, then it is okay. It is nobody else's problem; it is your problem. If one clings to the problem, it is one's own to decide. If you want to remain resistant, if you like it, love it, then do it to your heart's desire.
But if you want to drop it, then with whom are you playing the game? With yourself! Either drop it or carry it, mm? If you feel that it is something valuable and that is why you are resisting, fighting, not opening; if you think some treasure is there and that you are protecting your treasure, then by all means, protect it. Then who is there to tell you to come out of it? It is nobody's business.
But if you feel that you are suffocating, that it is not a treasure but a dungheap and you are dying in it, and you are living in a darkness and can live outside in the sun, then why? Whom are you resisting? You think it is these people, the group? You are resisting yourself.
Whatsoever one is doing, one is doing with oneself -- remember that. So in these two days, you decide. If you think it is worth preserving, then sit in a corner and preserve it, because these people are dangerous! They may fool you somehow, and you may spill your treasure -- and once it is spilled, it is spilled milk. You cannot gather it up again.
But if you think that this is foolish, there is nothing to protect... you are simply protecting so that you can believe that there is something to protect -- and there is nothing; who else can know better than you that there is nothing?... then jump into the middle of
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