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happy. I always choose to be happy!'
What is the point in being miserable! And this is the most important thing: if you are happy you start changing. Happiness is the only alchemy in the world. It is the only secret of transformation; there is no other. Unhappy people never change, and because they don't change they become more unhappy.
Happy people continuously change, and because they change they become more and more happy; and then more and more change is possible. Why do I say that happiness is the only alchemy? It is because in happiness you are flowing, your energy is not frozen; it is not blocked. You have an inner dance of energy, a dynamic energy, that is needed for transformation. When you are unhappy you are dull, solid, rock-like; nothing is flowing, everything is frozen. How can you change?
So don't be serious! This is one of the pitfalls for people who are searching for God. People who are searching for God are almost always serious people. Non-serious people don't get interested in God -- and they are the right persons to find Him! They are so much involved in life, in love, in enjoying small things -- 'eat, drink, be merry' -- they are moving in the world, mm? They don't go to the temple or to church -- it seems too serious and seems to belong to death and not to life.
And they are the right people, the festive people, who can attain to God. But this is the misfortune -- that they never become interested. The people who become interested are always depressed, sad, blocked. They are people who have missed their lives somehow: egoists, moralists, puritans, all sorts of ill people. They get into the church, and because of them God cannot enter the church. I can understand God's difficulty, because what can you do with serious people -- they will kill you!
God is where life is, where the dance is still happening and the flowers blossoming, the rivers flowing, and the world of stars. He is there -- in life. God is life. You can forget the word 'god' and nothing will be lost -- 'life' is enough. And when I say 'life' I don't mean life with a capital 'L', no; just a lower case 'l' will do. Just a simple life, not even
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