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want to sing, sing; if you want to sculpt, sculpt. Whatsoever you feel like doing, do -- but remember, you are not the doer, he is the doer. Let him take possession of you.
You disappear. Let him act through you, and then each act becomes so beautiful, so incredibly beautiful, that you cannot imagine. Then whatsoever you do is holy.
YOU WON'T FIND YOUR WAY
IN THIS STREET; IF THERE IS A WAY,
IT IS ON YOU ROAD OF SIGHS.
ALL OF YOU ARE FAR
FROM THE ROAD OF DEVOTION:
SOMETIMES YOU ARE VIRTUOUS,
SOMETIMES YOU ARE WICKED:
SO YOU HOPE FOR YOURSELVES, FEAR FOR YOURSELVES;
BUT WHEN YOUR MASK OF WISDOM AND FOLLY
AT LAST TURNS WHITE, YOU WILL SEE
THAT HOPE AND FEAR ARE ONE.
You won't find your way in this street. What street? The street of duality: the street of hope and fear, the street of love and hate, the street of darkness and light, the street of the Hindu and the Mohammedan. You will not find God on this street; he does not exist in duality. He is prior to duality, he is before the bifurcation happens. Then where will you find him?
... IF THERE IS A WAY, says Sanai,
IT IS ON YOUR ROAD OF SIGHS.
Tears. Tears of love, sighs of the heart. It is not on the street of the head but on the street of the heart. Sufism proposes a heart-wakefulness: become loving and aware in your heart. Sufism is the path of love.
ALL OF YOU ARE FAR
FROM THE ROAD OF DEVOTION...
Buddhism is the path of meditation, Zen is meditation. Sufism is the path of love, Sufism is love. And there are only two ways to reach him: either through meditation or through love. And they both meet at the peak, they both become one at the peak. If you attain to one, the other is attained just as part of it; it is only a question of emphasis.
If you become meditative you will be surprised: after meditation, love comes of its own accord. If you love, you will be surprised again: meditation comes just as a shadow behind it.
Love is the heart of meditation, meditation is the heart of love. They are together, two names for the same phenomenon. The approaches are different, but
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