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time -- if one starts in the right direction one can avoid many many unnecessary problems.
This is the time to start meditating, so before the diseases happen you are already ready; they cannot happen to you.
People start meditation only when the diseases have already happened. To start meditation early in life is to create such consciousness that problems won't arise, and even if they arise you will be able to solve them easily. Start meditating, mm? Good... good!
[Osho speaks to a sannyasin ma who is distraught because her relationship has fallen apart.]
Everything is perfect. And all the worries have been only in the head; your energy has remained absolutely unaffected, and that is something to be very happy about. You have passed through a great turmoil, great anguish.
It was a nightmare, but just a nightmare. Your centre has not been damaged by it, and that's one thing very beautiful.
The whole trouble was worth it. If one can pass through such moments of anguish without getting disturbed at the very core of one's being, one has passed through a great test. It brings integrity. It makes one more certain of one's being. You will never be the same again. All the wavering and all the possibilities of wavering, have been passed over.
It looks, when one is passing through it, almost like hell, and one wishes one did not have to pass through it. But once you have passed through it, it is felt as a blessing. Soon you will feel that it was a blessing, and you will be grateful to [your ex- boyfriend] too.
In fact, looked at from the right vantage point, wrong never happens; all that happens is right. If it doesn't look right, that is simply our opinion. It is not according to our desire, that's all -- but our desire may not be for our growth; it may be a hindrance. It is not necessarily so that whatsoever we desire is good for us. Almost always it is just the opposite: our desires are our undoing. We desire -- when it is not fulfilled we think something has gone wrong. But we never look deep down and see that in the first place the desire itself may have been wrong. Because as far as reality, existence, god, is
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