“There are only three mysteries. They are life, death, and love. All these three are beyond the understanding of the mind.
So the mind takes life for granted; then there is no need to inquire. That is a way of avoiding its understanding. You never think, you never meditate on life; you have simply accepted it and taken it for granted. It is a tremendous mystery. You are alive, but you don’t think that you have known life.
For death, the mind plays another trick: it postpones it. To accept it here and now would be a constant worry, so the mind puts it somewhere in the future and then there is no hurry. When it comes, we will see.
And for love, the mind has created substitutes which are not love. Sometimes you call your possessiveness your love; sometimes you call your attachment your love; sometimes you call your domination your love — these are ego games. Love has nothing to do with them. In
fact, because of these games, love is not possible.
Between life and death, between the two banks of life and death, flows the river of love. And that is possible only for a person who does not take life for granted, who moves deep into the quality of being alive and becomes existential and authentic. Love is for the person who accepts death here and now and does not postpone it. Then between these two a beautiful phenomenon arises: the river of love.
Life and death are like two banks. The possibility is there for the river of love to flow, but it is only a possibility. You will have to materialize it. Life and death are there, but love has to be materialized — that is the goal of being a human. Unless love materializes, you have missed — you have missed the whole point of being.”
