Whatever you do, do it with deep alertness then even small things become sacred. “How to start the journey? Start becoming more and more a witness. He has sung the song and then happily he flies away, leaving no traces behind.” A bird comes and sits at your door and sings a song, and the bird will not ask you for a certificate or some sign of appreciation. Trees bloom, it is not a business the stars shine, it is not a business and you don’t have to pay for it and nobody demands anything from you. Business is the ugliest thing in the world-a necessary evil, but existence knows nothing of business. Otherwise you will miss your life and love and all that is beautiful in it-because all that is beautiful is not at all businesslike. Love is not a business, so stop being businesslike. They always go on watching to make sure they get more than they give-then it is a good bargain, good business. People give very reluctantly-if ever they give, they give only to get, and they are almost businesslike. Everybody is interested in getting and nobody seems to enjoy giving.
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People are more interested in how to grab and get. “And the third thing is: Rather than thinking how to get love, start giving. If somebody loves you, be thankful, but don’t demand anything-because the other has no obligation to love you. You have no right to demand anything from anybody. So the second thing to remember is never to demand perfection. In the name of love people are just playing games. They start pretending and acting and playing games. Naturally, to become superhuman is very difficult, so people become cheats. As if he has committed a sin! Now he has to be perfect, now he has to drop all his limitations-suddenly, just because of this woman? Now he cannot be human? Either he has to become superhuman or he has to become phony, false, a cheat. The woman starts demanding that the man should be perfect, just because he loves her. Once a man loves a woman or a woman loves a man, demands immediately enter. Even if they can find a lover they demand perfection, and the love is destroyed because of that demand. People who demand perfection are very unloving people, neurotic. On the contrary, you will become unloving.
So the second thing to remember is, don’t ask for perfection otherwise you will not find any love flowing in you. “An alive and loving person simply loves. One day, long ago, I came across a perfect woman.” The inquirer said, “Then what happened? Why didn’t you get married?” Sadly, the old man said, “What to do? She was looking for a perfect man.”īeing in Love: How to Love with Awareness and Relate Without Fear Could you not find a perfect woman? Not even one?” The old man became very sad. When he was seventy, somebody asked, “You have been traveling and traveling-from New York to Kathmandu, from Kathmandu to Rome, from Rome to London you have been searching. I have heard about a man who remained a bachelor his whole life because he was in search of a perfect woman. And if they exist, they won’t bother about your love. Nonsense! You will never find them, because perfect women and perfect men don’t exist. People think they will love only when they find a perfect man or a perfect woman. “People think that they can love only when they find a worthy partner-nonsense! You will never find one.
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