Tuesday, November 18, 2008

....The less you know, the better....

The less you know, the better. To be philosophical, to be dogmatic, to be doctrinaire – this is easy.
To tackle a problem intellectually is very easy. But to tackle a problem existentially – not just to think
about it, but to live it through, to go through it, to allow yourself to be transformed through it – is
difficult. That is, to know love one will have to be in love. That is dangerous because you will not
remain the same. The experience is going to change you. The moment you enter love, you enter a
different person. And when you come out you will not be able to recognize your old face; it will not
belong to you. A discontinuity will have happened. Now there is a gap, the old man is dead and the
new man has come. That is what is known as rebirth – being twice-born