The Daily Bread

The Daily Bread...

Nobody knows anything about the future.Your heaven and your hell and your God are most probably all hypotheses,unproved.The only thing that is in your hands is your life; make it as rich as possible.

By intimacy, by love, by opening yourself to many people, you become richer.And if you can live in deep love, in deep friendship, in deep intimacy,with many people,you have lived rightly. And wherever you happen to be,you have learned the art,and you will be living happily there, too.

If you are simple, loving, open, intimate, you create a paradise around you.

If you are closed,constantly on the defensive,always worried that somebody may come to know your thoughts, your dreams, your perversions, you are living in hell.

Hell is within you—and so is paradise.They are not geographical places,they are your spiritual spaces.

Cleanse yourself. And meditation is nothing but a cleaning of all the rubbish that has gathered in your mind.When the mind is silent and the heart is singing,you will be ready-- without any fear but with great joy—to be intimate.And without intimacy, you are alone here among strangers.With intimacy,you are surrounded by friends,by people who love you.Intimacy is a great experience. One should not miss it.

Osho