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to come. Janus is a Roman god with two faces, facing in both directions. Man is a Janus; his whole life is a January. And both directions have something appealing and something that creates fear. One has to decide. If one decides to faH back, one disappears as an alive being; one has committed suicide. If one decides to go ahead in spite of all the fear that arises with the new, one is born spiritually.
Remember it. Listen to the call of the unknown -- and it is always there. Whatsoever becomes known has to be dropped.
Once you have lived it, it is finished; to repeat it is a sheer wastage of life. Let the search continue. Only then can one become a peak that goes beyond the clouds. Otherwise one becomes a flat land, lives a flat life. That's what people are living -- flat lives with no peaks. Nothing extraordinary ever happens to them because they never allow it to happen.
Love is the magic word. If you love, you are getting ready for the extraordinary to happen to you. If you love, you have accepted the invitation of the unknown. If you love; you live. They are synonymous: to love is to live; not to love is not to live. Love can become such a peak, like an Everest. And there is no end to it, it goes on growing.
If your life becomes suffused with love, immersed in love... not that only a few moments of love are there but there is a continuous flow of love, whatsoever you are doing love is there. You are cleaning the floor but love is there, as if you are cleaning the floor of a temple.
Taking a bath and the love is there for your own body, because your body is god's gift. Or just breathing and doing nothing, but the love is there, because to be able to breathe is such a miracle. We cannot pay for it, there is no way to pay; it is such a valuable gift. All else becomes possible through it. Just seeing a rose flower with deep love, god is revealed.
Whenever your heart is full of love and your eyes are showering love, god is revealed. It is love that gives you the vision of god. To me, love is religion, love is meditation.
This single word contains all that is beautiful.
Deva means divine, manso means mind --
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