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loving once it falls in love with a person it is a life-long love affair. Its remembrance is greats even if it loses track of his master for ten or twelve years, it will immediately recognise him after twelve years. Even human friends will forget all about the man, they may not be able to recognise him, but the wolf will recognise him.
So this name will mean to you your whole philosophy of lifes a loving, trusting heart. Love and trust -- these two words are enough. One need not believe in god, one need not believe in any other dogma or creed; if there is love and trust you are bound to find god. And that god will not be the god of the Christians or the Hindus or the Mohammedans, it will simply be a quality: godliness.
These two words 'love' and 'trust', are not really two separate things but two aspects of the same energy. Love is always trusting. If it is not trusting then something is missing in it, then it is not love. And trust is always loving, without love there can be no trust.
So this is in fact a criterion: if your love cannot trust then know perfectly well you think that you love, but it is something else. If your trust cannot love then it is not trust; it is only belief, a very superficial thing, without any roots. It is a mind phenomenon, it does not reach to your heart, if has no connection with your centre. It is something plastic.
So one can judge whether the love is true by trust and whether the trust is true by love. They are always together, they are inseparably together.
[Unless silence is based in meditation it is superficial, Osho said last night. Silence, peace, love, humility -- any quality you care to name can't be cultivated, it has to be based in meditation he constantly reminds us. It was on peace that he spoke now.]
Man can manage to have a certain peace without any help from god, but that will be only superficial. It can be disturbed very easily. It will not be even skin deep; just scratch a little bit and you will find the animal coming out with all its violence.
That's what millions of people have done through morality, through cultivating character.
This is a human kind of peace.
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