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basic needs. Love is a double-edged sword: it is not only that somebody should love you; it is also that you should love somebody.
So start loving yourself, and if somebody comes and takes the initiative in loving you, feel grateful and don't think that she or he is wrong. You are wrong, because god never creates anybody who is not worthy! Worth is intrinsic in life. You are a worthy man, you are an end unto yourself.
... Treat yourself really well. Join the music group in the night, dance, sufi dancing.
Very good! The group has helped you.
[The sannyasin then says: I have been almost impotent all my life and I think that if I cleared my mind.... ]
Yes, it will go! Impotence is almost always a psychological phenomenon. If you don't love yourself, what will you do with potency? It is useless! So when you don't love yourself the body dries up.
Start loving and you will start flowing. Nothing to be worried about.
The Further Shore
Chapter #3
Chapter title: In this community everything is allowed
3 June 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium
Archive code: 7706035
ShortTitle: SHORE03
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[A sannyasin who has just completed the primal group says: I feel very young and unable to be grown-up. And it frightens me... My body feels very unloose -- as if it's not me. I feel very separate from it and with what's going on in me.]
I can see it... mm mm. The primal succeeded, that's why you are feeling like this. The process of the primal is to bring you back to the point from where you lost track of your natural life.
For example, a boy or a girl grows up to a certain age naturally -- four years old, five years old, at the most seven years old, in more primitive societies, ten, twelve years. It depends on many things -- the parents, the society, the culture -- but somewhere between the fourth and the fourteenth year....
[She says: I feel about twelve.]
You feel about twelve? Exactly right! Somewhere there you lost track of your natural growth and you started growing an artificial being. That is the whole social effort;
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