Unless you have known what love is, you have not known what melody is.
Unless you have known what love is, you have not known what melody is. oshoIt is the meeting, orgasmic meeting, of death and life. Unless love is known, you have missed. You were born, you lived, and you died - but you missed. You missed tremendously, you missed utterly, you missed absolutely - you missed the interval in between. That interval is the highest pinnacle, the peak experience. Kabir calls it the divine melody.
Be herenow, just this moment: you see the beauty of it? This very moment the benediction is here, God is here. When you are silent he speaks, when you are listening he sings.
And learn to transform your poisons into honey, so all barriers are destroyed.
Then third, start sharing: whatsoever you have, share it. Share your beauty, share your song, share your life. In sharing, you will be enriched. Don't hoard. The moment you start hoarding you are going against God. The moment you start hoarding you are trying to depend on your own self; you have lost trust in life. Give it! As life has given it to you, give it - more will be coming.
And fourth, be nothing. Nothing is the source of all, nothing is the source of infinity, nothing is God. Nothing means Nirvana. Be nothing - and in being nothing, you will have attained to the whole. In being something, you will miss; in being nothing, you will arrive home.
This whole existence is divine. Love the trees if you want to know anything about the forest. Love people if you want to know anything about God. Each particular manifestation can become a window, a door. Don't be obsessed too much by words - the word 'god' is not God, the word 'love' is not love, and the word 'fire' of course is not fire. Drop words, and move more and more towards the existential.
Feel more, rather than thinking. Through feeling, your prayer will arise and through feeling, you will be dissolved one day. And when you are dissolved, God is.
(Osho - The Divine Melody #9)
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