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beautiful. And who knows what kind of faces those are?
The perfection of God is in your mind, because God is only a mind projection. And you can love God very easily, because there is no God, so there is no problem.
To love a woman or to love a man... there are problems. Your likings differ; your preferences differ. You want to go to the movie, and your wife insists on not going to the movie; she has a headache.
Once it was asked of Henry Ford: "How did you go on becoming richer and richer and richer; what was the motivation?" He said, "To tell you the truth, I wanted to see whether I can earn more than my wife can expend, and I have to accept that I am a failure."
With the other person there are problems. You want to sleep and your husband snores. What can you do with this husband who is just sleeping by your side, snoring? And he is helpless also. Thousands of methods have been tried to prevent snoring. The latest is a bag, electrically engineered, hanging over the husband's mouth. The moment he snores, the bag immediately falls on his face, and then he wakes up -- would you let him sleep the whole night or not? -- because whenever he snores, the bag comes immediately over his nose and mouth, and closes them.
You have a wife whose body smell you cannot tolerate....
With God everything is beautiful because neither you have to sleep with Him -- let Him snore -- nor do you have to live with Him -- if His body stinks, let it stink. It is a pure hypothesis in your mind.
But to be in contact with real human beings is a totally different experience. It is a fire test for your love. It is very easy to love God; it is very difficult to love man. It costs nothing to love God; it needs tremendous understanding to love a man.
So those who have escaped into the forest and the mountains, and are projecting an idea of God and love that God, have chosen a very easy kind of life. Their love is not going to grow, because it has no challenges.
The old saint is speaking, almost in essence, of the whole approach of all religions: "Love of mankind will destroy me. Man is too imperfect a thing for me." This is egoistic.
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