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risk. They waste time. Be a fool !
Fools have achieved things which clever people have never been able to achieve.
Saint Francis used to say 'I am God's fool'. Jesus looked foolish to people. All people who have attained to something have appeared foolish to others, to the so-called worldly-wise. But foolishness has a wisdom of its own.
For what are you afraid? At the most these people can call you a fool. So tomorrow you write on your forehead 'I am a fool' (laughter). Then they can see you are a fool, so what to do? Then you go on.
That will help, mm? Let us see.
[The youngest member of the group, aged 14, says: I am really scared in the group a lot of the time.]
No, don't be gentle to her -- that won't help. Because if you are gentle too much with her, she will feel separate. No child feels good when you are too gentle, because that shows that she is a child and not part of you. A child feels very happy when you behave as if he is grown-up. Even if you hit him hard, he will accept it. And he will feel grateful that you accepted him; that he is equal to you. That is a problem with children -- everybody is protecting them and patronising them. They feel that they are not yet accepted in the society of grownups.
So that may be the cause why she is feeling a little that she is not into it. For these two days forget that she is [a teenager and accept her grown-upness. And she is grown-up now -- she has been to Goa (laughter), so she is perfectly grown up! You don't need any more qualification for a grown-up. Goa-returned, mm?
In the old days in India, when India was under British rule, that was the greatest qualification: England-returned. For what one had gone, nobody enquired (laughter).
She is Goa-returned, so accept her and don't treat her specially. She will feel happy for it and grateful, and things will start moving. Tomorrow they start moving! They have already started!
[A group member, who is also a therapist, says he realised how manipulative he was: I've just been stuck for so many years -- yoga techniques and karate techniques.... I feel now that I'm becoming less ambitious. I'm dropping
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