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now you will have it, and you will have it forever. You cannot exhaust it.
But you will have it only when you have got the point that it cannot be possessed, that there is no way to get it.
This is the Zen paradox -- Zen is the path of paradox. It says that if you want to possess God, please don't possess him -- and you will possess him. If you want to possess love, don't possess, and it is there and it is always yours. You cannot lose it; it is not possible to lose it.
WHEN YOU ARE SILENT, IT SPEAKS;
WHEN YOU SPEAK, IT IS SILENT.
You cannot both speak. Martin Buber has made the word 'dialogue' very, very prevalent in the Western world. It is a great insight but not yet of the height of Zen. Martin Buber says that prayer is a dialogue. In the dialogue you speak to God, God speaks to you. A dialogue has to have two. Of course, a dialogue is an 'I-thou' relationship. It is a relationship. You relate.
Zen says that this is not possible. If you speak, God is silent. When you are speaking and creating noise in your head, he disappears -- because his voice is so still and so small, so silent, that it can be heard only when you are utterly silent. It is not a dialogue, it is a passive listening.
Either you speak' and God is not there, or God speaks and you are not there. If you dissolve, disappear, then you hear him. Then he is speaking from everywhere -- from every chirping of every bird and from every murmur of every brook and from every wind passing through every pine. He is everywhere -- but you fall silent.
WHEN YOU ARE SILENT, IT SPEAKS;
WHEN YOU SPEAK, IT IS SILENT.
THE GREAT GATE IS WIDE OPEN TO BESTOW ALMS,
AND NO CROWD IS BLOCKING THE WAY.
There is no competition, there is nobody blocking your way, there are no competitors. You need not be in a hurry. You need not make any effort to grab. There is nobody competing with you and there is nobody standing in front of you -- only God, only God. You can relax. You need not be afraid that you will miss it. You cannot miss it in the very nature of things. You cannot lose him. You relax.
All these statements are just to help you
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