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this is the only place on the whole earth where so many people are sitting in immense silence -- not only on the outside but inside too. And silence gives space. Words, thoughts, are all disturbances.
Silence is an opening to the infinite.
You can expand to infinity -- it all depends on your courage. And courage also comes as your experience grows, as you see that the more you expand, the more beautiful life becomes; the more you expand, the more love showers on you; the more you expand... everything takes on a new psychedelic dimension. It becomes more colorful, more alive, more dancing. The ordinary world suddenly starts changing into something extraordinary. The mundane becomes the sacred. And these are the most significant moments in life -- when the mundane becomes sacred.
All the religions have been enemies of mankind for the simple reason that they have divided the mundane from the sacred. Rather than bridging them, they have been continuously conditioning the human mind that they are opposites, enemies, and you have to renounce one if you want to get the other.
If you want victory and success in the mundane world, you have to forget about the sacred completely. And to forget it, the best way is to deny it -- it does not exist at all. Otherwise, how will you forget it? It will always remain somewhere in the corner, nagging you.
Just the other day, I was informed that in the Soviet Union -- atheism is their religion -- every child has to be conditioned from the very beginning in atheism. It is not different, it is the same: somewhere it is the Catholic religion, somewhere it is Protestant, somewhere it is Hindu, somewhere it is Buddhist. In the Soviet Union, it is atheist. Somewhere it is God, somewhere it is no God. But the society never leaves you anywhere to search for yourself. It gives you ready-made answers. And in life, ready-made answers are not only futile, not only poisonous, but almost murderous.
The information was about many countries within the Soviet Union which are Mohammedan -- used to be Mohammedan. Now, officially they are all atheists. But they have not forgotten; something of the sacred still lingers
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