It is the ego that is the most involved in love. That’s the thing that is attacked by love.
How does your human self look to you when you have lost the sense of yourself? It’s a completely reversed way of looking, isn’t it? So it appears as another yourself.
It is the greatest power there is in the world, ecstasy. If you have ecstasy and you communicate ecstasy to another being, and then that being communicates it to another being, it’s the greatest force there is. What are people looking for everywhere? To be high. Finally America has reached the concept of being high. Hm? It’s been there all the time, but we found a word, now, to say what people have been looking for all this time: to be high.
We are faced with a great dilemma, because we feel that we must do something about it. And, on the other hand, we realize that we have to let the operation of God take place within us. We mustn’t hinder the operation, but we cannot do it by our will. And this is what a lot of you will come across in meditation. And you’ll come to a point when you think—I’ve often said, as a matter of fact, “Shake yourself! Awaken!” Well, that’s an act of will, isn’t it?
So great is that sense of divine perfection that the limitation in which you are functioning will take nothing away from the divine perfection in you.
