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of love and you will know all the secrets of life. And the secret is simple: drop the ego and love starts overflooding you. Get rid of the ego, the idea of "I," and suddenly you are an ocean of love; the doors have been opened. And the moment you feel yourself like an ocean of love, what else can you do than be joyous, celebrating, singing, dancing? When life becomes a dance it is spiritual. When life becomes a dance you have known God because it is God who dances in you. But you have to prepare the way for him. Love is the path and the ego is the hindrance. Remove the ego.
The whole work that is going on here is to help you to remove the ego, to help you to see the obstruction that the ego creates. Once you have seen it -- and it is a simple insight, it is nothing very complicated, complex, a simple insight -- once you have seen it it is so easy to drop it because it is an ugly thing to carry, an unnecessary load, an absolutely pathological baggage. It is neurosis, it is psychosis, it is schizophrenia. Once you have seen the whole ugliness of it you can easily drop it; it is no more a great sacrifice. In face to carry it any longer will be a sacrifice.
The secret is simple. The keys are always simple: the locks may be complex, but the keys are always simple. And this is a master key -- it can unlock all the doors of the divine.
OSHO: What is the meaning of your name?
NIHAT: I don't know!
That's the right answer!
First: the moment you say "God," it seems a very faraway thing. That's what they have been saying down the centuries, that God is somewhere above, in the sky, very very far away. But when you say "love," it is very close to the heart; and God is close to the heart. All those priests are cunning and crafty. They have been trying to prove that God is far away, because if God is far away, only then can they be the representatives of God, the mediators, the agents.
If God is far away that makes the pope relevant; if God is very close to your heart what is the need of a pope? There is no need of anybody to mediate between you and God. If God is the heartbeat then the Vatican becomes irrelevant, then all churches
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