Chapter 13 Section 12

※※※ Truth is the greatest offender. ※※※ Borrowed knowledge is ignorance. Truth from experience does not make you learned, it makes you humble.The more you know it, the less you will say you know it.And the day comes when you know it all, you can just say, "I am utterly ignorant, I am just a kid collecting shells on the beach, and I don't know anything." The phrase "I don't know" can only be uttered by someone who is fully aware. Those who say "I know" are completely ignorant, but they are full of memories, and those memories are dead because they have not produced any experience of their own.

※※※ To me, to be natural is to be spiritual. My effort is to create a natural person—human, free from guilt, accepting all possible frailties and failures of humanity. This deep acceptance of your natural nature is the seed of your transformation. ※※※ We fill our lives with worldly things and worldly actions because we don't know a simple mystery that transforms the quality of everything we do. Remember, if you do not know the mystery of transformation, you are worldly in those worldly things, unless you have a consciousness that makes you divine, that transforms everything you do into In the same category as your existence.

In this way, everything you touch becomes sacred. Anything you do becomes sacred. ※※※ Anything that is beautiful, anything that makes you think of the other side creates a longing in you, and you cannot figure out what that longing is for, you don't know the name of the object, because in fact you are not longing for any object. Listening to beautiful music, watching the sunset, or a bird in flight, or a beautiful rose, or sitting quietly, you will feel a sweet pain.That longing is how to become one with this feeling state, so that it becomes not something that comes and goes, flies by, but something that stays with you all the time, something that "becomes you "Things.

The same music is sweet today, it may be sweet tomorrow, but it may become boring the day after tomorrow.So the problem is not the music, it is something else that is triggered in you -- it is a desire to be peaceful, to be musical, to have the beauty of all that exists and to have it forever. It's a spiritual longing, it's a longing for beyond, it's a longing to be beyond all these fleeting experiences, a longing to stop time and be here and now, a longing to stay forever The longing in this moment. This is true religious sentiment. ※※※ When you can immediately feel presence -- without any meditator, without any mind that anyone else has given you -- you have tasted something that transforms you, that can lighten you up, that wakes you up, that able to lead you to the highest peaks of consciousness.

You cannot have greater achievement, you cannot have higher fulfillment, you cannot have deeper relaxation, you have come home. Life becomes a joy, a song, a dance, a celebration -- this I call life, I call religious. ※※※ Someone brought up without any religious belief system, without any political ideology is needed.His education has only honed his intellect so that he may one day find his own truth. Remember, if truth is not your own, then it is not truth.To be truth it has to be your own, it has to be your own experience, truth cannot be borrowed. ※※※ God will die, religion will disappear, but religiousness is something woven into existence itself.It is the beauty of a sunrise, it is the beauty of a bird in flight, it is the beauty of a blooming lotus, it is all that is truthful, that is sincere, that is real, it is all that is loving and Mercy.

Religion includes everything that pulls you up, it doesn't keep you where you are, it keeps reminding you that you have a long way to go. Every place you stop to rest is just a night's rest, and in the morning you go on a pilgrimage again, an eternal pilgrimage. ※※※ I want everyone to be a pilgrimage gypsy. You don't need roots -- you are not a tree. you are human. ※※※ Nature is not pain, it is joy, it is not anxiety, misery and suffering, it is love, it is joy, it is a constant celebration. We come from this nature, we are part of this nature, and in our consciousness we inherit this same quality.

※※※ Trust just means that no matter what happens, we go with it happily, without compulsion or unwillingness.Trust means that no matter what happens, we sing, dance, love, and laugh with it. Whatever happens is good, there is no way to get it wrong.If it doesn't satisfy our desires, it simply means that our desires are wrong. ※※※ The greatest human need is to be needed.If someone needs you, you are content, but if you are needed by the whole existence, your joy is unlimited, which needs as much from the smallest blade of grass as from the largest star; there is no inequality. question.

No one can replace you.If you are absent, existence will lack something, and it will always remain lacking, it will never be full. That feeling - that this whole gigantic existence needs you - will take all the misery and misery from you. You are home for the first time. ※※※ Evolution tries to reach the ultimate pinnacle of consciousness through humans. There are some people who have achieved it, and they are the proof that everyone can achieve it -- just a little more effort, just a little more sincerity, just a little more searching. Everything is telling you that your present way of life is not enough, that what you are doing now is not the whole story, that your worldly life is only superficial.

In most cases, your real life remains untouched.People are born, they live, and they die, and when they die, they don't know who they are. The whole existence is silent, and if you can also be silent, you will know who this consciousness is within you, and when you know this, life becomes a joy, a moment-to-moment ecstasy, Turn into a never-ending feast. ※※※ There is only one true prayer, and that is to start living with gratitude for being.Existence gave you such an opportunity, which you never asked for, which you never deserved, and yet you got it.You bloom into thousands of flowers, and then leave this world with the fragrance of gratitude.

※※※ Act more consciously, and you will come closer and closer to a quality that can only be called "divinity" -- not a god, not a person, but a quality, a fragrance. If you act unconsciously, you will come closer and closer to a quality that cannot be anthropomorphized as a devil, but can only be called "evil." The unconscious mind acts in the wrong way and the conscious mind acts in the right way. The only religion is the art of changing the "unconscious mind" into "consciousness" so that you will not have a split between the conscious and the unconscious, but just a pure light, a pure consciousness.

Everything that comes out of that consciousness is divine.