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So be very alert, and then you will be surprised how little we know. The more you become conscious, the more you will find that you know less and less and less. When one becomes absolutely conscious one is bound for a big surprise: one knows nothing. And the moment of that experience, that one knows nothing, is a great, liberating moment. It is enlightenment. To know that "I don't know," is enlightenment. One is freed of the mind, of knowledge; one is simply freed from all kinds of concepts, philosophies, religions. One is freedom! That ignorance is beautiful. That ignorance makes you a child again, it is a rebirth.
OSHO: Misery is human, bliss is divine. Animals are unaware of both; they are neither miserable nor blissful, they are living in a kind of deep sleep.
Man has awakened a little bit, just a small part of his being has become conscious; hence the split. Animals are total, there is no split, they are one piece. Man is dual, and the duality arises because a part of his consciousness has arisen from the unconscious ocean. It is just the tip of the iceberg, a very small part, one-tenth of the whole, but it has created a division: the conscious mind and the unconscious mind.
The unconscious mind goes on pulling you towards the animal because it remembers the joys now; it remembers the joys of being animal, of being total. When you were an animal you were not aware of them. It is as old people remember the beauties of childhood. Children are not aware. Only when they lose their childhood do they start remembering that which they had never felt before when they were really children.
The unconscious pulls you back toward the animal world; its pull is downwards, backwards. And the conscious is trying to pull you upwards so you become more conscious, because consciousness has given you many things. Yes, it has given you anxiety, tension, anguish, but it has also given you music, painting, poetry. And it has given you a dignity which no animal has, the dignity of being conscious. If such a small part can impart so much dignity the desire arises: "If I become fully conscious, how much will now be my glory?" That is the search
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