The Heart
The heart is always true.
The heart is never untrue
And the head is never true.
The head lives in lies, it lives on lies.
It exists in all kinds of falsehoods.
The heart is authentic, it is sincere.
It is simple, it is not cunning.
It is tremendously intelligent but not cunning.
It simply reflects that which is.
That’s its beauty and its truth.
God is never known through the head.
Anything that has any value
Is never known through the head.
Love, beauty, God
They are all known through the heart.
The heart is the gateless gate to reality.
Move from the head to the heart.
We are all hung up in the head.
That is our only problem, the only one problem
And there is only one solution:
Get down from the head into the heart
And all problems disappear.
They are created by the head.
And suddenly everything is so clear
And so transparent that one is surprised
How one was continuously inventing problems.
Mysteries remain but problems disappear.
Mysteries abound but problems evaporate.
And mysteries are beautiful.
They are not to be solved
They have to be lived.
Love is the only nourishment for the soul.
Without love the soul remains weak.
Just as without food the body will be weak
Love is food for the soul.
The ore you love, the stronger becomes your spirit.
And the beauty of the strength that love brings
Is that it is non-egoistic.
One can be strong, but if one becomes egoistic
Then the whole point is missed.
Egoistic strength is self-destructive
Because ego is your enemy.
Making it stronger is cutting your own throat.
It is digging a ditch
Into which you are going to fall.
But when your spirit becomes stronger
Through love a miracle happens:
Ego cannot function with love.
The first requirement of love is egolessness
So the ego is cut from the very root.
And when the spirit is strong without ego
And overflowing with love, you have arrived home.
God is no more a far-away phenomenon
He is as close as your own breathing.
That's why Jesus says god is love.
-Osho, "Eighty Four Thousand Poems, #6"