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things are in harmony, everything seems to be good, everything seems to be a blessing. Then there is well-being. Watch these two things: whenever you are, there is some kind of discomfort. Whenever you are not, love is; there is flow, there is relaxation. And in that relaxation, in that moment of love, god can come into you. To go into god, god has to come into you.
[A visitor says: I haven't found my way in life yet. I feel confused and... ]
You are fortunate. The really unfortunate people are those who think they have found. The moment you think you have found then life is meaningless.
Life is search. Seek for the joy of seeking, not for the joy of finding.
[The visitor continues: I see that some of those people I met here have something in their heart, a strength which I don't have.]
That can happen to you, that is not a problem. It is not that they have found but that they have dropped the whole idea of finding, that's why they have that strength. Naturally, logically it seems that they have found and that's why they have that strength and that joy. In fact the reality is. . . I know the inner story! You have watched them from the outside. The inner story is just the opposite: I have persuaded them to drop their goals; they have dropped their goals. How can you miss if you drop the goal? There is nowhere to go and you are here and happy. How can you be miserable when there is no goal?
The goal is the trick of the mind to create misery. Create a goal and then you are miserable because then anxiety arises: How to achieve it? I have not achieved it yet. You go on searching and searching and you never achieve it. You remain miserable and you go on missing all the joys of life because your eyes are focused on the future. You are here and your eyes are focused on the future. I help my people to be here; I destroy their future.
Try to understand this thing: the body exists here but the mind is not here. That is the dichotomy, that is the problem. When you drink water the body drinks herenow. The body cannot drink water in the future, it cannot drink water in the past; the past is no more, the future is not yet. When
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