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day -- life and death happening both together.
And then one day comes the ultimate death and one accepts it, welcomes it, celebrates it, disappears into it dancing. How you behave at the moment of death will show how you have lived. Your death moment will be a testament.
Uwais is saying, 'I am always facing death and waiting for it. And I am thrilled by the possibility of it.' But to face death means to live courageously. People avoid death. They have even avoided the very idea of it. They think that everybody else dies but they are not going to die.
If you live in such innocence you live in ignorance. Ignorance is a great religious quality. A man of knowledge cannot become religious but an ignorant man can easily become religious.
Uwais says, 'LIKE ONE WHO HAS ARISEN IN THE MORNING AND DOES NOT KNOW WHETHER HE WILL BE DEAD IN THE EVENING.' Nothing is certain, nothing is predictable; everything remains open. For a Sufi all. is possible. Nothing is absolutely certain, everything is possible -- that is what opening, an open mind, means.
THE OTHER MAN SAID, 'BUT THIS IS THE SITUATION OF ALL MEN.'
Everybody is going to die and nobody knows when he is going to die.
The other has not understood the statement of Uwais. We understand only at our own plane.
UWAIS SAID, 'YES. BUT HOW MANY OF THEM FEEL IT?'
They are going to die.
Every moment the unknown penetrates into life -- that's what death is. But they don't feel it. They are not aware of it. People live in a kind of sleep, in a kind of slumber. People are almost sleep-walkers.
The passenger in the taxi cab was more than slightly inebriated. Glancing at his watch he saw that the time was seven o'clock. Shortly afterwards he glanced at a clock in a jeweller's store which registered 6:55.
'Hey, what's the time?' he asked the cabbie.
'It's 6:50,' the cabbie replied.
'Stop and turn around,' he demanded, 'we're going in the wrong direction!'
People are almost asleep, drunk; there is not even a ray of awareness.
It happened....
It was the first part in five years that he had managed to get in any play. True,
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