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out of joy. His wife could not believe what he was doing why he was crying and weeping. She thought he was unhappy or something. He was tremendously joyful. He said, 'I feel spent, but I am happy. My energy has been used -- it has not been in vain. '
Your work is of a tremendous import. There are very few pilots who really understand their work. It is the most adventurous work... it is one of the most poetic, one of the most aesthetic. So don't do it just as a job. It is not a job at all -- it is a great creative activity. Mm? just to be on the winds in the vast sky is a tremendous joy -- it has a certain spiritual quality in it and the beauty of the sky and the clouds, and the sun and the sunrays, an ;l the rains, and the stars in the night, and the oceans below, and the infinite blue.... It is very meditative. To be a pilot is to be fortunate.
And the more you enter into meditation, the more you will enjoy. There is risk but all joy has risk. In the risk is the thrill. The pilot is always between life and death -- and that's the beauty of it. The pilot cannot become dead and dull. If he becomes dead and dull it is his own responsibility; he has forgotten what he is doing.
It is a great adventure; take it as an adventure and start loving it. Make it more and more meditative.
It is one of the experiences of all the meditators of the world that the higher the altitude, the easier is the meditation. That's why so many people used to go to the himalayas: not for the mountains -- for the altitude. The higher you go, the less is the pull of gravitation. The less the pull of gravitation, the less you are a body. You start feeling a little bodilessness... you become more weightless.
As I conceive it, sooner or later spaceships will become the most useful places for meditators. They are completely out of the grip of gravitation, and man has no weight; he can float like a balloon inside of the ship. Those will become great experiences for meditators.
So the higher the altitude, the lesser is the grip of the earthly, the earth, and you are closer to the sky. You are less tethered to the instinctive, to the heavy, and you are more
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