Truth never comes by studying about it; truth has to be encountered, truth has to be faced. The person who studies about love is like the person who studies about Himalayas by looking at the map of the mountains. The map is not the mountain! And if you start believing in the map, you will go on missing the mountain. If you become too much obsessed with the map, the mountain – maps of the mountain may be there just in front of you, but still you will not be able to see it.
And that’s how it is. The mountain is in front of you but your eyes are full of maps– maps of the mountain. Maps about the same mountain made by different explorers. Some body has climbed the mountain from the north side, somebody from the east. They have made different maps: Koran, Bible, Gita- different maps of the same truth. But you are too full of maps, too burdened by there weight; you cannot move even an inch. You cannot see the mountain just standing in front of you, its virgin snow peaks shinning like gold in the morning sun. You don’t have the eyes to see it.
The prejudiced eye is blind. The heart full of conclusions is dead. Too many priori assumptions and your intelligence starts loosing its sharpness, its beauty, its intensity. It becomes dull.
Dull intelligence is what is called intellect. Your so –called intelligentsia are not really intelligent, they are just intellectual. Intellect is a corps. You can decorate it with great pearls, diamonds, emeralds, but still is a corpse is a corpse.
TO BE ALIVE IS TOTALLY DIFFERENT MATTER
-OSHO
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