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miserable because they want to be miserable. That is their magical trick, that is the magic they are playing on themselves... notwithstanding what they say.
They may go to many people -- to the psychoanalyst, to the guru -- to find out ways to get out of their misery but they don't want really to get out of it, because if you want to get out of it nobody is barring the way. The door is open; you can simply get out! It is not even locked and nobody is guarding it; nobody is going to prevent you. It is your magic that you have played upon yourself. Misery is magic... so is bliss.
The day somebody understands it he can create his own reality. Then it is up to you: you can be blissful, you can be miserable, you can create hell and you can create heaven -- whatsoever you want.
The word magic is meaningful. It is the oldest science in the world, and the people who lived with magical ideas were the liveliest people -- the pagans.
Once this is understood -- that we create our world, that it is our mind-projection, that whatsoever comes on the screen is projected by us -- once this is understood, then there is no problem. If you want to see a horrible thing you can; that is your decision, your joy to see it.
That is the exact meaning of the word maya: that the world is magic -- you create it. And everybody lives in his own world, it is not one world: fifty persons are sitting here, there are fifty worlds sitting here and each is living in his own world. We never come across each other's worlds but sometimes if we do, there is always clash. That's what happens in love: two persons come very close -- their two different kinds of magic start clashing.
There are as many worlds as there are people -- and when I say people I include the trees and the rocks and the animals and the birds, because they create their own magic! A tree lives in its own magic world.
This, rightly understood, becomes a great key, it becomes a great secret; then you can change and transform.
And my feeling is that you can do it very easily, that's why I am giving you this name. Start playing around with this idea. One morning, decide to be miserable...
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