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you may not see the difference, but a house is also an alive thing. If there is love, then it is alive; the difference is the same. You may see a body lying there; how do you decide whether it is a corpse or an alive body? You go and touch, you feel the warmth, you put your hand close to the nose, you feel the breathing, you can see the heaving heart, you can listen to the beat; then you say it is not a corpse. In exactly the same way, a home has a beat, has a sound, breathes, pulsates. A house is dead; it is a corpse.
Now in the world there are many, many houses, but homes have disappeared.
KABIR SAYS:
THE HOME IS THE ABIDING PLACE;
IN THE HOME IS REALITY...
You are born in the home, you are rooted in the home; you should live in the home and you should die in the home -- and there is no need to go anywhere else. God has destined it this way. Just as a tree is rooted in the earth, you are rooted in home, in love, in community.
... THE HOME HELPS TO ATTAIN HIM WHO IS REAL.
SO STAY WHERE YOU ARE,
AND ALL THINGS SHALL COME TO YOU IN TIME.
And don't be in a hurry. And don't hanker. And don't desire for things to happen instantly. Wait. There is no need to go to the forest or to the Himalayas; no need to move to any Catholic monastery. There is no need to become a Jaina monk. Be -- wherever you are -- be in love, be in deep relationship, and wait. When the time is ripe, He comes, He reveals Himself.
Waiting is one of the greatest religious qualities. More important than effort, is waiting. Effort is a shadow of the ego. When you make effort, you say, `I am GOING to have it; I will possess even God. I cannot allow reality to escape from me. I have to know. I an going to hold God in my hand. I am going to declare to the world one day that, yes, I have arrived.'
Effort is of the ego; waiting is egolessness. Waiting is passive; one waits.... That's why all the great mystics have said that to know God one has to become feminine. The male is aggressive. The male is effort, attack, will; the feminine is passive, receptive, welcoming. The feminine is a womb; when God comes, the passive mind, the waiting
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