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care of the head. For almost twenty-five years -- that is almost one-third of your life -- you are trained to care about the head. And then you have to plunge into the world -- into marriage, into money, into the market -- and the occupations are so many, when will you find time to nourish your heart, to help it grow? Hence people live in the head and die in the head, and the greatest possibility of their being blissful remains unopened. The\ seed of the heart remains a seed -- it never becomes a tree.
But it is good that you have become aware, and I can see -- you are feeling sad, your whole being is full of sadness. But no need to feel sad. This is a good beginning -- now start searching for the heart. It is there, because one cannot be without the heart. The heart is there, you just have to create a bridge between you and the heart. And that's what my function here is -- to help you to be bridged to the heart. But good that one is aware that one is in. Now he can go to the physician, now he can ask for medicines, exercises; now he can do something! The unfortunate person is one who is ill and is not aware of illness. He will never go to the physician -- he is going to die.
Just do a few groups -- things will start flowing....
The Tongue-Tip Taste of Tao
Chapter #3
Chapter title: None
3 October 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium
Archive code: 7810035
ShortTitle: TONGUE03
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[A sannyasin says: I always have so much to say to you, but I have nothing to say!]
That's right. When there is so much to say, it is always difficult to say it. Only small things can be said, only trivia can be said, only the mundane can be said. Whenever you feel something overwhelming it is impossible to say it, because words are too narrow to contain anything essential. Words are utilitarian. They are good for day to day, mundane activities. They start falling short as you move beyond the ordinary life. In love they are not useful, in prayer they become utterly inadequate. And this is a relationship of love and prayer, so it will be difficult, but it is good that one has
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