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they devote their whole life to seeking and still they miss -- not because they have committed any sin but just because of their seriousness.
If you cannot be playful you keep god distant. When you are flowing, relaxed, the distance is not so much. And there come moments of relaxation when the distance simply disappears, when there is no need to seek god: god is found. God is found without seeking. Seeking has nothing to do with god; seekers miss. There are two types of people -- the seekers and the finders, and they are different people. Seekers never find and finders don't need to seek, they simply find.
Picasso was painting something beautiful and the visitor, a friend, asked, 'How do you seek beauty?' And he said, 'I don't seek it! find it!' That statement is pure Zen: I don't seek it, I find it....
Drop seriousness; there is still time to drop it. And in the very dropping of it you will really start growing.
Prem means love, dip means lamp -- a small lamp of love, a small flame of love, a light of love. Love kindles a light inside, and that light is such that it needs no fuel. There is never a power crisis for it because it is uncaused; it is perpetual, eternal. Once you have found that light inside, it goes on burning forever and forever. And with that light inside, the darkness around you starts disappearing. Then you can go into the darkest night and still your path will be lit. Love is the only light that helps. Scriptures don't, but love.... So these two things I say to you: love and laughter, and between these two you will find. Be loving and laughing; don't take yourself serously.
Once Buddha was asked -- somebody had committed suicide and he was asked, 'Why does someone commit suicide? Why?' And Buddha said, 'Through taking oneself too seriously.' And that is so. The people who commit suicide are the people who take themselves too seriously. The people who take themselves too seriously may or may not commit suicide, but they live their suicide, a slow suicide. They are never alive to the optimum.
So remember these two things -- love and laughter. Between these two is the gap for you. In these two all is going
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