SIN
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To
repress anything is a crime: It cripples the soul. It gives more attention
to fear than to love, To take more note of fear is sin, to take more note of love is virtue. And always remember to take more note of love, because it is through love that one reaches the higher peaks of life, to God. Out of fear one cannot grow. Fear cripples, paralyzes: It creates hell. All paralyzed people -- psychologically paralyzed, spiritually paralyzed -- live life in hell. And how do they create it? The secret is that they live in fear; they only do a certain thing when there is no fear, but then there is nothing left worth doing. All that is worth doing has certain fears around it. If you fall in love, there is fear because you may be rejected. Fear says, ：Don・t fall in love, then nobody will reject you.； That is true -- if you don・t fall in love, nobody will ever reject you -- but then you will live a loveless existence, which is far worse than being rejected. And if one rejects you, somebody else will accept you. Those who live out of fear think mostly of not committing mistakes. They don・t commit any mistakes, but they don・t do anything else, either; their life is blank. They don・t contribute anything to existence. They come, they exist -- they vegetate, rather -- and then they die. Osho |