My words today – for meditating on our propensity to sabotage ourselves:

“People want to attain to a deeper integration. They want a certain tranquillity, a place inside which is
beyond distractions. When it comes though they become afraid, because then they feel that when
the anger, the so-called love, the hate, and all those passions and storms of the mind are left far
behind, they are disappearing. Then they suddenly become panicky. They feel as if life is slipping
from their hands, and the coolness feels like death. But coolness is real life, and if you can wait a
little longer you will see that.

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Love will come back, but now it will be totally different and will have a different glow. It will be cool and
dispassionate – and when love is dispassionate it has a tremendous depth to it. A passionate love
is just on the surface. It makes too much noise but says nothing of worth. But when love becomes
cool, it has a depth. The ocean is silent, there is no storm, but the depth of the ocean is there.
A cool love is more like compassion. Passion is nothing! It is, in a way, destructive. It destroys you,
and it destroys the other with whom you have become related in it. Compassion is creative but it
has a coolness, because all integrity is cool.

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So just wait a little. The old love will disappear and then a new love will be born – and there will be
a gap in between in which you will feel as if you are a nobody. But that has to be passed, and it is
part of growth. Before the new enters and after the old is no more, there is a discontinuity. But this
is very beautiful. Feel happy, and thankful. Become a cool-head!”

– Osho

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Picture credit: taken from Red Gate Gallery.

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Religion4All is an idea: that every human being (no matter their race, religion, sexuality, social status, lifestyle, or any other possible factor) is LOVED by God; just … as … they are.

We all are loved by God, and NO religion or person has a monopoly on it. Every single person on this planet is loved equally by God … SO many are cut off from God because they are told they don’t belong. God loves everyone … we ALL are beautiful creations … we don’t need to cringe when we hear the words “God”, or “religion”, or their judgments … God LOVES us all!

There is no requirement to change in order to be LOVED by God, or to LOVE God. God is LOVE, and LOVE is God … period. There is no one who God loves more than anyone else … there are only those who choose to LOVE more … to love God more, and consequently then to love each other more. In doing so, we grow closer to God … and know God.

By opening our hearts, and minds to God (free of boundaries like religion, or social trends); by LOVING God … we are exactly where we are meant to be. If we maintain that openness, never allowing any person or event to make us close our hearts, we will be guided by God to be who we are meant to be.

In that space of openness we can then live a life of LOVE, and be guided to where we are meant to be … forever in LOVE.

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