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kept, part of it disappears. After a few years the whole of it is gone, only the essential fragrance remains.
If your attention grows you will be able to contain more. Buddha has said that if your mind is unburdened of the day-to-day worries, you will be able to remember your past lives -- that's true. If your focus on the mundane is relaxed, then the light will start falling upon the past. Buddha has remembered and talked about all his past lives, thousands of lives -- the life when he was an elephant and the life when he was a tree, and so on and so forth. And they are your lives too.
You are not suddenly here, you have a continuity. You are a continuum. Consciousness is a stream.
In the West, William James used these words for the first time: 'stream of consciousness'. He must have heard it from some Sufi source, there is no other way -- because Sufis have always been talking about stream of consciousness, stream of life. It is an on-going, a flowing phenomenon; it is movement, it is not static. Even while you are here you are not static. Every moment things are changing: the body is a flow, the mind is a flow, your being is a flow. You are not the same even for two consecutive moments. In the morning you were so happy, so trusting, by the afternoon you have become so doubting and untrusting, and by the evening everybody is a skeptic, cynical and sarcastic. Early in the morning everybody seems to be prayerful, innocent. As the day wears on, as you are cheated and pulled and pushed from this side and that, you start losing your innocence.
You are constantly changing... a movement. And if you try to remain the same you will create misery, because then you will be fighting against your very life. The message is flow, let go. The message is don't swim upstream. The message is go with the stream; this is your life. And don't be afraid, because this stream has been flowing down the ages, for centuries -- there is no need to be afraid -- and this stream will be flowing down the centuries in the future too. From one eternity to another eternity, it continues.
You are the fabric of the universe. You will not disappear. Even when you
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