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one day you suddenly see that all darkness has disappeared. And to know that inner light is to know god. Everyone is a shrine of god and the flame is burning there, but we don't look.
God goes on calling from the innermost core of your being, but it is a very still, small voice. So enough of the children and the grandchildren! And they are very noisy people.
[A sannyasin says: I'm always kicking myself for doing things wrong, and that I've always done. I'm always really tense and I can't relax at all.]
Stop kicking yourself, mm? And don't start kicking yourself because you are kicking yourself, otherwise you will think, 'Now I have to stop' and if you kick yourself, you kick yourself more.
Mistakes are perfectly okay, nothing is wrong in mistakes. Everybody makes them and everybody has to make them. Don't ask for perfection. Mistakes are good, they keep you human. Otherwise you will either become inhuman or superhuman, and both are not good. To be human is very beautiful but to remain human one has to err. And nothing is wrong in making mistakes! Why make so much fuss about it?
But you have some idea that you should not commit mistakes; then you torture yourself and feel guilty and condemn yourself. There is no need; everybody commits mistakes. Just remember one thing: not to commit the same mistake again. I'm not saying that you have to feel guilty for it; make some new mistakes! That is how one grows. Get fed up with the old and find out some new ways to commit new mistakes. Every day commit at least one new mistake. Try: find at least one thing to do wrong every day, and enjoy it!
Be human and don't keep inhuman ideals in your mind. That's the space we want to create here, a very human space where everybody is accepted as he is. Not that growth will not happen; growth will happen only then -- when acceptance is there for oneself as one is.
If you have made a mistake there are two ways to treat it: one is to feel guilty. If you feel guilty, you will commit the same mistake again. Guilt is the way to help the mistake come back. You are trapped, because when you make the mistake you start feeling guilty; this is a
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