No. An Unremitting Readiness To Admit You

There Is Yet Another Illusion, That It Is Important To Be Respectable, To Be Loved And Appreciated, To Be Important. Many Say We Have A Natural Urge To Be Loved And Appreciated, To Belong. That’s False. Drop This Illusion And You Will Find Happiness. We Have A Natural Urge To Be Free, A Natural Urge To Love, But Not To Be Loved.

If You Look Carefully You Will See That There Is One Thing And Only One Thing That Causes Unhappiness. The Name Of That Thing Is Attachment. What Is An Attachment? An Emotional State Of Clinging Caused By The Belief That Without Some Particular Thing Or Some Person You Cannot Be Happy.

The Disciples Were Absorbed In A Discussion Of Lao-tzu's Dictum: "those Who Know, Do Not Say; Those Who Say, Do Not Know." When The Master Entered, They Asked Him What The Words Meant. Said The Master, "which Of You Knows The Fragrance Of A Rose?" All Of Them Indicated That They Knew. Then He Said, "put It Into Words." All Of Them Were Silent.

My Experience Is That It's Precisely The Ones Who Don't Know What To Do With This Life Who Are All Hot And Bothered About What They Are Going To Do With Another Life.

Silence Is Not The Absence Of Sound, But The Absence Of Self.