05/01/2018
Don't call it uncertainty - call it wonder.
Don't call it insecurity - call it freedom.
THE WAY OF THE HEART
The word courage is very interesting. It comes from a latin root cor, which means ''heart''. So to be courageous means to live with the heart. And weakling, only weaklings, live with the head; afraid, they create a security of logic around themselves. Fearful, they close every window and door-with theology, concepts, words, theories-and inside those closed doors and windows, they hide.
The way of the heart is the way of courage. It is to live in insecurity; it is to live in love, and trust; it is to move in the unknown. It is leaving the past and allowing the future to be. Courage is to move on dangerous paths. Life is dangerous, and only cowards can avoid the danger-but then, they are already dead. A person who is alive, really alive, vitally alive, will always move into the unknown. There is danger there, but he will take the risk. The heart is always ready to the risk, the heart is a gambler. The head is a businessman. The head always calculates-it is cunning. The heart is noncalculating.
This English word courage is beautiful, very interesting. To live through the heart is to discover meaning. A poet lives through the heart and, by and by, in the heart he starts listening to the sounds of the unknown. The head cannot listen; iti is very far away from the unknown. The head is filled with the known.
What is your mind? It is all that you have known. It is the past, the dead, that which has gone. Mind is nothing but the accumulated past, the memory. Heart is the future; heart is always the hope, heart is always somewhere in the future. Head thinks about the past; heart dreams about the future.
The future is yet to come. The future is yet to be. The future has yet a possibility-it will come, it is already coming. Every moment the future is becoming the present, and the present is becoming the past. The past has no possibility, it has been used. You have already moved away from it. The future is like a seed; it is coming, ever coming, always reaching and meeting with the present. You are always moving. The present is nothing but a movement into the future. Everybody in the world wants to be true because just to be true brings so much joy and such an abundance of blissfulness-why should one be false? You have to have the courage for a little deeper insight: Why are you afraid? What can the world do to you? People can laugh at you, it will do them good-laughter is always a medicine, healthful. People can think you are mad... just because they think you are mad, you don't become mad.
And if you are authentic about your joy, your tears, your dance, sooner or later there will be people who will start understanding you, who may start joining your caravan. Our responsibility is toward our heart, not toward anybody else in the world. So is your responsibility only toward your own being. Don't go against it, because going against it is committing su***de, is destroying yourself. And what is the gain? Even if people give you respects, and people think that you are a very sober, respectable, honorable man, these things are not going to nourish your being. They are not going to give you any more insight into life and its tremendous beauty. Your sole concern should be to take care of and protect those qualities that you can take with you when death destroys your body, your mind, because these qualities will be your sole companions. They are the only real values, and the people who attain them -only they live; others pretend to live. Just living is not always living. Look at your life. Can you call it a blessing? Can you call it a gift, a present of existence? Would you like this life to be given to you again and again?
Don't listen to the scriptures-listen to your own heart. Listen very attentively, very consciously, and you will never be wrong. And listening to your own heart, you will never be divided, you will start moving in the right direction, without ever thinking of what is right and what is wrong.
The whole art for the new humanity will consist in the secret of listening to the heart consciously, alertly, attentively. And follow it, go wherever it takes you. Yes, sometimes it will take you into dangers-but remember, those dangers are needed to make you ripe. Sometimes it will take you astray-but remember again, those goings astray are part of growth. Many times you will fall-rise up again, because this is how one gathers strength, by falling and rising again. This is how one becomes integrated.
Never be an imitator, be always original.
Have a nice weekend, be original, follow your heart, don't hesitate, it's never to late to start. Namaste.
