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deep in a training, but in the night they find they cannot sleep. Impossible. If you relax the whole day how can you sleep in the night?
Life moves into polarities. That's why I say: Love if you want to be alone; move into the other if you want to be totally, utterly alone. Be active if you want to be passive. Don't be afraid of the polarity, life is a polarity. That's why life is both life and death -- death is the other polarity of it.
ATTAIN THE UTMOST IN PASSIVITY. Learn how to be passive. Don't always be a doer; sometimes also let things happen. In fact all great things happen, they are never done. Love happens, nobody can `do' love. If somebody orders you, if even an Adolf Hitler orders you to go and love, what will you do? You can pretend, you can act, but how can you really love by order? It is impossible. It has been my observation that people who have loved without really falling in love become observers of it, they attain to a certain witnessing. Prostitutes, particularly, become witnesses because they don't love the person, they are not in it. Only their body moves; there are only gestures, empty gestures of love, and they are always standing on the outside of it. The whole thing goes on and they are standing outside of it. They can easily become observers. Lovers cannot compete with prostitutes because they get involved in it, they forget themselves in it.
Remember to move into polarities. And if you really want to be aware I will tell you to forget yourself completely sometimes. Get involved so totally that you are no longer there, and when you suddenly come back you are totally there. Forgetting, remembering, living, dying, waking, going to sleep, loving, meditating -- move into polarities, use the opposites, be just like two wheels of a cart or two wings of a bird. Don't try to remain with one pole because then you become paralyzed.
ATTAIN THE UTMOST IN PASSIVITY and always remember that all that is beautiful always happens: love happens -- you cannot do it, meditation happens -- you cannot do it, relaxation happens -- you cannot do it. In fact life has happened to you, you have not done anything about it, you have not
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