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that he was lying, because deep in his heart he knew perfectly well he was Abraham Lincoln.
Copying, imitation, can go so deep. Although he was saying that he was not Abraham Lincoln -- and he was not Abraham Lincoln -- the machine was detecting his heartbeats and making a graph, so suddenly when he said, "I am not Abraham Lincoln," the graph went berserk. It lost its harmony. When the graph was taken out and the psychoanalyst studied it he said, "My God, unless he gets assassinated this man is not going to change."
Only assassination would prove whether he was Abraham Lincoln or not. But what would be the point -- after assassination what is the need of any proof? In fact, my feeling is if that man had been assassinated and if he had had a few minutes before dying, he would have said, "Look, I have been telling all you idiots that I am Abraham Lincoln. Now the final act has come. I am assassinated."
You are filled with wrong ideas. But those wrong ideas are very prevalent down the centuries.
"... And to allow your presence, your eyes and your actions to put light on my being present, on my actions, on my ability to see clearly, what is happening inside..." That is all imitation, that is all destructive; that's how man has been destroyed, that is how the whole of humanity has been enslaved.
You are just to be a friend to me, neither a believer, nor a follower, nor an imitator -- just a friend. You have to listen to me and experiment. I may be right, I may be wrong; it is your experiment which is going to decide. It is only your experimentation with yourself that will bring authentic growth, consciousness, enlightenment. There is no other way. There has never been.
And now you are asking: "Is there another word to describe this relationship with you?" What relationship? I have been against all relationships -- just friendliness, not even friendship. That word `friendship' gives a distant echo of some relationship. Just friendliness, that's enough; there is no need for more. Now you need a new name to describe this relationship? I don't have any relationship with anybody.
You are here out of freedom, out of love, out
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