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simply overflowing towards you.
Wisdom is natural, like digested food which has become your vitality. Knowledge is unnatural -- like undigested food which is hanging, burdening your chemistry -- is destructive.
THE MAN AGREED. HE TOLD HIS STORY MANY DECADES LATER, WHEN HE BECAME FAMOUS AS THE GREAT TEACHER SUFI KHALIL ASHRAFZADA.
He himself became a greater Master in his own time, but he could become that only because he agreed.
The same I say to you: if you agree with me, sooner or later great light will be released from you. You will become a light unto yourself, and not only unto yourself, but for others also. You will become a lighthouse for all those who are wandering in darkness. But the first requirement is agreement with me -- with no hesitation, with no condition from your side, an unconditional trust. Then this miracle is possible in your life too....
LA ILLAHA ILL ALLAH!
The Secret
Chapter #2
Chapter title: A Chance To Pour My Grace Into You
12 October 1978 am in Buddha Hall
Archive code: 7810120
ShortTitle: SECRET02
Audio: Yes
Video: No
Length: 108 mins
The first question:
Question 1
WHY IS LOVE SO PAINFUL?
Latifa, love is painful because it creates the way for bliss. Love is painful because it transforms; love is mutation. Each transformation is going to be painful because the old has to be left for the new. The old is familiar, secure, safe, the new is absolutely unknown. You will be moving in an uncharted ocean. You cannot use your mind with the new; with the old, the mind is skillful. The mind can function only with the old; with the new, the mind is utterly useless.
Hence, fear arises, and leaving the old, comfortable, safe world, the world of convenience, pain arises. It is the same pain that the child feels when he comes out of the womb of the mother. It is the same pain that the bird feels when he comes out of the egg. It is the same pain that the bird will feel when he will try for the first time to be on the wing.
The fear of the unknown, and the security of the known, the insecurity
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