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yet be loving. Watch lovingly. Slowly slowly, your watchfulness and your lovingness become one -- they are two aspects of the same phenomenon. Then it is polishing the heart. Love is the method of polishing the heart. Awareness helps you to reach the heart, and love helps you to polish it. And the more it is polished, the better it reflects reality.
THE ROAD YOUR SELF MUST JOURNEY ON
LIES IN POLISHING THE MIRROR OF YOUR HEART.
IT IS NOT BY REBELLION AND DISCORD...
You need not fight with yourself, you need not force anything upon yourself, you need not be in conflict. You have to fall into accord, not discord.
Hence Sufism knows nothing of asceticism. The ascetic is a masochist; he is not a really religious person. He does not love himself, he hates himself.
The Sufi loves himself, the Sufi loves all. The Sufi is love.
IT IS NOT BY REBELLION AND DISCORD
THAT THE HEART'S MIRROR IS POLISHED FREE
OF THE RUST OF HYPOCRISY AND UNBELIEF...
Remember, I told you the possibilities are two if you act from the mind. One is hypocrisy, the so-called religious person. Hindu, Mohammedan, Christian, Jain, Jew: the so-called religious person, the hypocrite. That is one possibility.
The other possibility is unbelief, atheism: "There is no God. I have searched, I have searched to the very limits of my reason, and I have not found God. There is no God."
Both are foolish attitudes. One should remain non-conclusive. One should remain on the border of reason without any conclusion, just silent, passive, available. Then the presence of god takes you in.
... YOUR MIRROR IS POLISHED BY YOUR CERTITUDE
BY THE UNALLOYED PURITY OF YOUR FAITH.
There is certainty that is arrived at through reason, but that certainty is always based on doubt. Doubt cannot be destroyed by reason because reason feeds on doubt, reason begins in doubt. Reason begins in questioning, reasoning is basically skeptical. So even if it comes to a conclusion it is only hypothetical. it is only for the time being. If some new facts are revealed the conclusion will have to be changed.
That's why science can never say,
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