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source, it will come again; it will go, it will come, it will appear and disappear, but it cannot die.
Birth is appearance, death is disappearance. But neither is birth the beginning nor is death the end: the ocean continues. To have this oceanic feeling is meditation, is prayer.
LOSE YOURSELF, AND ANYTHING CAN BE ACCOMPLISHED.
Then the impossible is possible, because nothing is impossible for God. We have unnecessarily become too narrow, too tiny; we have become mundane. We have lost our own heritage, we are not aware of all the beauties that we contain and of all the potential that is intrinsically present in us.
YOUR SELFISHNESS IS AN UNTRAINED COLT.
Your selfishness is nothing but your unawareness, your lack of discipline. Create an inner discipline, a little training in awareness, and your selfishness will disappear, because your SELF will disappear.
And when there is no self left, then real Self with a capital S, the Supreme Self, arrives. You disappear as a wave, you appear as the ocean. That is liberation.
Recognize the self -- the self which is not the ego, the self which has nothing of the ego in it. Hindu mystics have called it the ATMAN. Buddha has given it a totally different name, not only different but diametrically opposite: he has called it ANATTA, no-self.
The self is a no-self, because there is no ego in it. To be an ego is to fall from your reality -- the original sin. The self is not the ego, absolutely not; it is not personal, either. It is misleading to speak of "my self." The self is universal. The moment you say "my self" you have lost track of the universal and you have become small. Now you will feel suffocated; you have created the suffocation yourself.
The self, the real self, the supreme self, is beyond any person, identification, form, process, position. But they all arise in it and dissolve in it -- it is the ocean. The self is the space in which everything appears and disappears. That space has to be found within yourself. Don't get identified with any content, otherwise the ego arises.
For example, there is sadness surrounding you. Immediately you become identified,
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