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you will come to a point where both have become a support to each other. Otherwise you can become schizophrenic, you can split in two.
Become a triangle. Right now you are only two angles; the third angle is missing. Join these two angles and the third, the higher angle. Let the lower two become the base and let there be a pyramid; the higher angle has to be created.
Love; love with responsibility and yet be wild in your love, be spontaneous in your love. I am not saying the path is going to be all roses, no. The higher your target, the more difficult is going to be the path, the more thorny will be the path; it is an uphill task.
Many people have chosen the easier way. A few have chosen to be animals; they become criminals. They fall out of society, they are the drop-outs. They don't bother about any humanity or anything. They simply want to live and do their thing, so they are doing their thing. But they are not the real flowers. They may be carrying flowers in their hands and in their buttonholes, and they may even be called 'the flower generation', but they are not flowers because they have not bloomed. They are just drop-outs; they are cowards.
The word 'hippie' is good. It means one who has shown his hip, an escapist who has run away from the battle of life, from the challenge of life -- a run-away, an escapist, a coward. These are the people; they have always been there.
Certainly the animal part has an attraction, naturally, obviously, but one never feels fulfilled with it: something goes on gnawing at your heart. You can never be at ease with the lower. You can slip into it; but again and again you will find that you are bigger than it, it cannot contain you. You have to come out of it and you feel confined too much. It is a regression.
It is as if you have become grown-up and you are still living in a child's skin; it is a bondage. Nobody can go back; the animal is gone forever. Man cannot move backwards; the only movement possible is forwards.
If innocence is to be attained, it has to be higher, not lower than man, not lower than you are already. On some higher peak the innocence has to be attained again.
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