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silence be loving and your loving be silent. And great experiences will happen through it, the door will open through it....
[A sannyasin is leaving for the West.]
Wherever you are, start working for me -- you are ready for it now. And remember one thing: there are many things that you will learn only by teaching people, many things that you will get only by sharing with people. Unless you share your joys they tend to die. A constant sharing is needed to keep them alive and flowing.
So whenever you experience something of the extraordinary share it immediately. Share with your friends, acquaintances, family, share with all those you love and you care for. And you will be surprised: if you share, it grows. Sharing is feeding it, nursing it. The more fragrance is released, the more capable you become of releasing. So never hoard any experience inside, otherwise it goes stale. It not only dies, it becomes poisonous to the system. When a song has arisen in the heart it has to be sung and when the energy is ready to dance you have to dance.
And never feel shy. In the beginning it looks a little awkward, it looks a little pretentious to say something out of the ordinary. They will think you are crazy. Take that risk: let them think you are crazy! If you talk to ten people one is bound to respond. And that is more than enough. Nine won't listen to you; that is their business, don't feel offended. But even if they don't listen to you, you will be benefited because you shared, because you showed your compassion. The word compassion means exactly that: sharing -- sharing your passion. That is the meaning of compassion: communicating your passion, communing your passion.
Your compassion grows -- whether they listen or not, whether they take any note of it or not. And who knows? -- today they may not take, tomorrow they may. Your words will remain there like seeds. Whenever the time comes and the season is ready, those seeds will sprout. These are eternal seeds, they never die. Sometimes it takes centuries and many lives for the right time to come, but it does come: suddenly one day the seed has sprouted and leaves have come out of the earth.
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