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ambitions in life. "When I grow up," she announced, "I want to be a prostitute."
The Reverend Mother gasped and threw up her hands in horror. "Did I hear you rightly? What was it you said you wanted to be?"
"A prostitute."
The Reverend Mother sighed with relief, "Oh, praise the Lord," she said. "I thought you said a Protestant."
That has been the attitude of all the religions. Here, I want you to be just yourself. And that is possible only if you become a watcher. The deeper and sharper your watching, the greater is your individuality, the more is your human dignity.
Tremendous is the splendor of a person who has come to know everything that goes on within him, because by being aware, all that is false disappears and all that is real is nourished. Except this, there is no radical transformation possible.
No religion can give it to you, no messiah can give it to you.
It is a gift that you have to give to yourself.
But the unconscious creates difficulties. Not that they cannot be dissolved, but you need a little patience, a little trust in existence. Difficulties will be there but don't take them as difficulties, only as challenges. It is a gre+at adventure to go into your own being, to the very center of your existence -- because that is the center of the whole of existence too.
Mrs. Rappaport advertised a new Cadillac for fifty dollars. Goldstein answered the ad and the first thing he asked was, "What is wrong with the car?"
"Nothing," she replied. "If you don't want it, please don't waste my time."
Goldstein asked for the keys and went to the garage. He backed the car out, parked in front of the house, counted out fifty dollars, and handed it to the owner. "Now you have your money, what is the catch?"
"My husband just died," she said, "and in his will he instructed that the Cadillac be sold and the proceeds be given to his secretary."
You will find mind playing many games. It has been with you for so long, it will not be easy for it. If you simply drop it without giving a second thought, it will struggle to cling to you. But the secret is in watching. Don't fight with it,
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