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Now you can live again with the new, through the new; the old is no more needed. But before the new arrives and the old is gone, you are in a kind of limbo -- don't be afraid of it.
And never think of falling back -- that is cowardly. And a cowardly person cannot be religious. Religion is only for the brave ones.
(To Gerdi) -- This is your name: Ma Gerdi. It is a beautiful name; it means courageous spirit. and
Courage is the most significant religious quality, everything else is secondary, because without courage there is no possibility of being sincere, truthful, meditative. without courage there is no possibility of growing, because growth means going constantly beyond the known. when the seed becomes a sprout it is going into something unknown, when the sprout starts growing flowers it is again movement into the unknown. And when the fragrance leaves the flowers... again a quantum leap into the unknown.
Life needs courage at each step. Wherever courage is lacking we become dormant. Courage keeps us flowing, alive.
(To Vera) -- This is your name: Ma Vera. Vera means truthful, sincere, faithful. Those are great things. And if from right now you start growing in these directions, they can happen. They very rarely happen and to only a few people, but only those people to whom these qualities happen are fortunate.
Everybody is capable but much work has to be done. Start from now! Good Vera!
(To Reinhard) -- This is your name. Reinhard means pure heart/ In fact the heart is never impure. It is a repetition to say pure heart; the heart means purity.
The head can be impure but the heart cannot be impure. The head can be impure because it can have desires, memories, thoughts. Even when it has good desires it is impure. Even if the dust is golden it is dust and it covers the mirror. Even when you desire god you are creating impurity. Impurity simply means that you are bringing something alien, foreign into yourself. The head is always impure and the heart is always pure.
So the question is not how to make the heart pure or how to make the head pure; the question is how to move from the head to the heart. Movement
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