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the hatred cannot accept that the other person is a person. He should be reduced to a thing; should be killed. Then the other is just like earth or stones -- dead. Hate reduces the other to a thing. Love reduces nobody to a thing. On the contrary it raises, uplifts, even things into persons.
So whatsoever a person who loves has touched, becomes a person. You can talk to the trees if you have love. You can talk to the rocks if you have love, because then the rock is no more a rock. It has a personality of its own, unique. No other rock is like that This rock is not a carbon-copy of another rock. It has an individuality of its own. Touch it... feel it. You will never feel another rock giving you the same sensations, ever. This is what personality means, individuality -- that everything in this existence is unique, incomparably unique, unbelievably unique.
[A sannyasin says: I feel the groups are just opening me up, splitting me up... but not clearing me up... I won't let a woman get near me, and that I'm afraid of being possessed.]
This is just the beginning. One has first to understand many things. The very understanding helps. So don't think that this insight is nothing -- it is valuable, immensely valuable.
If you understand that you don't allow a woman to come close to you, next time a woman approaches you, you will allow her a little more. This understanding will help a little more. You will feel that there is nothing wrong; she has come so close and yet everything is going so beautifully, why not a little more? This insight will help you to move... and one moves cautiously in the beginning. It is natural.
There is no need to be worried that the insight has not yet become a realised truth. No insight can immediately become a realised truth. An insight is just a glimpse. A window opens -- now you have to travel. An insight gives you a vision of the far away. You can close the window and can forget about it. You will remain in the same room. But you can jump out of the window... nobody is hindering the path.
You can run towards that far-away peak. It will take a little time. It will be hard, arduous, but it pays; it pays
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