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by it, true, but you cannot possess it. The smaller cannot possess the bigger. It is so simple but so difficult.
When we love somebody we want to possess the love, we want to possess the beloved, the lover, we want to become completely dominant because we are afraid somebody may take it away. But before anybody takes it away it is gone. It is not there any more. The moment you start thinking of possessing, you have killed it. Now there is a dead thing, a corpse. The life has disappeared.
Life cannot be possessed because life is God. Existence cannot be possessed because existence is God.
You see a beautiful flower -- a rose -- on a bush, and you immediately take it away from the bush. You want to possess it. You have killed it. Now you put it in your buttonhole -- it is a dead flower, it is a corpse, it is no more beautiful. How can a dead thing be beautiful? It is just a memory and it is fading. It was so alive on the bush, it was so beautiful on the bush. It was so young and so happy and there was dance in it and there was a song around it. You killed all. Now you are carrying a dead flower in your buttonhole.
And this is what we are doing in everything. Whether it is beauty, love, God, we want to possess.
YOU CANNOT TAKE HOLD OF IT.
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BUT YOU CANNOT LOSE IT.
So beautiful. Yes, you cannot possess it, but there is no way to lose it either. It is there. It is always there. If you are just silent you will start feeling it. You have to fall in tune with it. You have to become silent so you can listen to it. You have to become silent so the dance of God can penetrate you, so God can vibrate in you, so God can pulsate in you. You have to drop your rush, your hurry, your ideas to go somewhere, to reach, to become, to be this and that. You have to stop becoming. And it is there; you cannot lose it.
IN NOT BEING ABLE TO GET IT, YOU GET IT.
IN NOT BEING ABLE TO GET IT, YOU GET IT. The moment you understand that you cannot possess it, and you drop your possessiveness, it is there -- and you have got it. The moment you understand that love cannot be possessed, a great understanding has arisen
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