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that once George Bernard Shaw phoned his doctor and said, "I am in much trouble and I feel that my heart is going to fail. Come immediately!"
The doctor came running. He had to run up three staircases and was perspiring heavily. He came in and without saying anything, just fell down on a chair and closed his eyes. Bernard Shaw jumped out of his bed and asked, "What is happening?"
The doctor said, "Don't say anything. It seems I am dying. It is a heart attack."
Bernard Shaw started helping him; he brought a cup of tea, some aspirin, he did whatsoever he could. Within half an hour the doctor had recovered. And then he said, "Now I must leave, give me my fee."
George Bernard Shaw said, "This is really something. You should pay me! I have been running around for half an hour doing things for you and you haven't even asked anything about me."
But the doctor said, "I have cured you. This is a treatment and you have to pay me the fee."
When you become interested in somebody else's illness you forget your own, hence so many leaders, so many gurus, so many masters. It gives you an occupation. If you are concerned with other people, if you are a servant of people, a social worker, helping others, you will forget your own confusion, your inner turmoil, because you are so occupied.
Psychiatrists never go mad -- not because they are immune to it, but they are so much concerned with other people's madness, curing, helping, that they forget completely that they also can go mad.
I have come to know many social workers, leaders, politicians, gurus, and they stay healthy just because they are concerned with others.
But if you lead others, dominate others, out of your confusion you will create confusion in their lives. It may be a treatment for yourself, it may be a good escape for you, but it is spreading the disease.
HE WHO RULES MEN, LIVES IN CONFUSION....
And not only does he live in confusion, he also goes on spreading confusion in others. Out of confusion only confusion is born.
So if you are confused, please remember -- don't help anybody, because your help is going to be poisonous. If you are
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