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-- not at all. You will be standing in darkness. It is very dark there, and the reason is that light can be known only when it is reflected. So you will see the earth reflecting light, the moon reflecting light, Mars reflecting light, but the sun will be dark. And that's exactly what is happening here: you don't the earth reflecting light because you are on the earth, but when people go to the moon they see the earth so luminous, as luminous as the moon.
Light needs to be reflected, only then can it be seen. And your consciousness is the highest quality of light, the subtlest light, the most refined light -- it can be reflected only in love, and then only are you aware. That's why in love people become very beautiful... suddenly! They are no more ordinary, a grace descends. Everything changes -- their eyes, their gestures, their walk, the way they sit, the way they talk, their sound; everything is immediately transformed.
So the observation is very accurate: only in love does one feel alive. But now the question is: how to remain in love for twenty-four hours so that you can remain alive for twenty-four hours? Because this is not much of a life -- that once in a while you are alive and then you are dead. Long periods of death and then one flare-up of life; this is not much, not good enough. But one can remain in love continuously.
If you are watering a plant you can water without love, you can water with love. You can treat the plant just as a thing or you can treat the plant as a person -- they are people! Just say hello to the plant and you see the difference. Hug a tree and see the difference. Have a little chit-chat with it. In the beginning it may not respond, but slowly slowly it will become friendly. Slowly slowly it will understand your love, and when you come close to it there will be ecstasy in the tree. And I am not talking poetry, I am talking actual science. Being with the tree then is experiencing as much love as being with your beloved. Then cooking food can give as much love or cleaning the floor can give as much love. Because this whole earth is divine.
The story goes that when Moses reached Mount Sinai, God shouted at
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