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your love on it. If you see a bird on the wing, send your love to it. If you see a child smiling, pour your love. Don't miss a single opportunity to pour your love, and the more you pour, the more you will have. Slowly slowly you will see that your love is growing wings. It is turning slowly slowly into prayer.
And it matters not to whom your love is addressed -- it is always addressed to god. You may love a woman, but if you really love it reaches to god. You may love music, but if you really love it reaches to god. Real love always reaches to god. It rides on all kinds of waves but its ultimate destiny is god.
One has to be certain only of one thing, that it is real. What do I mean by real love? I mean a love that asks nothing -- then it is true, then it is real -- a love which only gives and is grateful because its love has been accepted. A heart that goes on giving with no idea of any return is a loving heart.
If you think of something coming back to you, it is no more love; it is a bargain, it is a business. At least with love never do business. At least keep love intact, beyond business, beyond economics. At least let one thing remain virgin and pure.
Accept the mind and its games too as part of nature, because there is nothing unnatural -- there cannot be. All that happens can happen only because nature allows it. Yes, the mind too is part of nature, and mind games too are part of nature. In deciding that they should not be there you are going against nature. In deciding against the mind you have started choosing. And whenever you choose, repression comes in, because that which you have not chosen will have to be repressed, will have to be denied expression, will have to be put aside so it doesn't come in your way again and again. But if it is part of nature -- and all is part of nature -- it is bound to come, it will rebound. It will come back with great energy; it will assert itself. It will take revenge. It will not leave you silently.
The real understanding of nature is that all is natural -- the mind and its games included. Then one relaxes, then it is perfectly okay. Even the mind is perfectly okay -- let it play.
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