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And God knows only one time. He has no acquaintance with the past and the future; the present is the only time for him -- and we are never in the present. Hence the host goes on knocking and cannot find God because he knocks on the past, in the future. And God goes on knocking and cannot find the host because he knocks in the present and the host is never in the present.
We are very close to God but like parallel lines we go on, never meeting. Once we stop going into the past and the future the parallel lines start coming closer and closer together. One day suddenly there is only one line: two lines have disappeared. That is the moment of great joy, great benediction. That's what everyone is seeking, longing for. and because people go on missing it they are miserable.
Be ready. And the only way to be ready is to live in the present, and you will become a home. That is the fulfillment of life.
(To Gianpietro): This is your name .... You have a beautiful name so I am going to keep it exactly as it is. There is no meed to add anything to it, it is more than enough: Swami Giampietro. Giam means God's gracious gift; it comes from the Hebrew, John. And pietro comes from the Greek; it means strong in spirit, rocklike strenght. The strenght of the spirit is God's grace, God's gift.
The first thing to remember is that life has been given to us, it is not our achievment. In fact we don't know deserve it at all. It is a very strange law of existence that those who deserve it -- a Buddha, a Christ -- disappear from life, and those who don't deserve it go on getting life again and again. Once you deserve it you are ready to disappear into the ultimate. If you don't deserve it you will have to come back. Only those who fail, come back -- obviously. Those who fail have to come back to the same class, to the same school again. Those who pass move to higher planes of being, to higher schools which are not ordinarily visible. This is the first thing to remember, that life is a gift. Don't waste it, use it. Use it in deserving it.
And the second thing to remember: strenght of the spirit. It is not something that is yours either. It is God's constant
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