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qualities of the heart, they are the petals of the flower of the heart. And man can live either trough the head or through the heart.
The whole transformation consists of moving from the head to the heart. Becomes less calculative, less clinging to the logical pattern, less businesslike. Be more of a lover. Learn to risk, learn to live dangerously -- only then there is dance and there is music and there is poetry. Lose the head to gain the heart, and you will be a sannyasin.
(to Pratibha)
Intellect and intelligence are two totally different things. Intellect is part of the head; intelligence is part of the heart. One can be a great intellectual and yet unintelligent, and one can be very intelligent and may not be an intellectual at all. A man can be a great scholar, a great pundit, with no intelligence. He is just like a parrot: he can quote scriptures but he functions like a machine. He does not understand what he is saying because he has not experienced it himself; it is all borrowed. And anything borrowed burdens you, chains you, imprison you. Only your own experience is liberating.
Move towards the heart. Let love-intelligence arise in you. It can't come through scriptures, books, libraries, universities, academic degrees. It can only come through being more and more meditative, still, silent. It is not an extrovert effort but an introvert search. And when love-intelligence blooms life is fulfilled; there is great contentment. In that contentment one feels gratitude to God, and that gratitude is prayer. Before that all prayers are false.
(Ma Prem Vishran: love and relaxation)
These are the two things you have to enter into: love and relaxation. They are helpful to each other, supportive of each other: if you are loving you become relaxed, if you are relaxed you become loving. And this goes on and on: you love more, you can relax more; you relax more, you love more. It becomes like a pyramid, you start going towards some unknown peak where love and relaxation become one. Then the goal is achieved. When your very being is relaxed and knows no tensions, then your whole being is just radiating love -- not to any particualr
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