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eyes you can look beautiful, good, righteous, religious. But this is a great loss.
If people think you are religious, that does not make you religious. If people think you are happy, that doesn't make you happy. And once you are on the wrong track, you can miss your whole life.
Become more interested in being happy than being thought happy. Become more interested in being beautiful rather than being thought beautiful -- because thoughts cannot satisfy your thirst, thoughts cannot satisfy your hunger. Whether people think you are well-fed or not is not the question; you cannot deceive the body. Real food is needed, pictures of food won't do. Real water is needed, pictures of water, formulas about water, won't do. H2O cannot quench your thirst. Once you understand this, then the discovery starts; then you are in search of the bull.
Watch yourself. You will catch yourself red-handed many times a day when you are not thinking about reality but about fictions. Looking in a mirror and thinking that you are looking at yourself is one of the most absurd things. The face that is mirrored is not your face; it is just the surface, it is just the periphery. No mirror can mirror your center. And the circumference is not you. The circumference goes on changing every moment; it is a flux.
Why are you so much attracted to the form? Why not to the real? A man who is in search of his self, who has become interested in self-knowledge, goes on breaking all mirrors. He does not smile because people are looking at him and a smile will give a good impression about him, he smiles when he feels to. His smile is authentic. It is not dependent on people, it is not dependent on onlookers. He lives his life. He is not trying always to convince an audience that "I am so and so."
Remember: people who are too much concerned about convincing others are empty people, hollow within. They don't have anything authentic. Otherwise, the desire will disappear. If you are a happy man you are a happy man and you don't think about it, that it has to be reflected in others' eyes. You don't go on collecting opinions. Whatsoever identity you think you have, just analyze it
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