When you ordered to uproot a tree,
You may say to yourself, "I'll wait until I'm more powerful and then uproot it once1x"
But the longer you wait and leave the tree to grow the larger and stronger,
While you only becomes older and weaker,
Then its uprooting becomes more difficult and finally impossible.
Like as you can go on postponing this and that.
Then you can go on postponing and death will come first.
We always think there is no hurry.
This is what we have been doing with our lives.
Unless we feel it as an emergency, a deep crisis, we will not do anything1x
This is how our minds are functioning.
But keep this in your mind.
For every sin but the killing of time there is forgiveness
Every moment you are dying,
Every moment you are losing an opportunity that cannot be regained.
The time that is lost is lost; nothing can be done to regain it,
And your life becomes shorter and shorter every moment.
The Time Is Now
If you are ever going to love me or hate me,
Please, do that to me now1x
I can feel your feelings which from true affection flow.
Anger or hate are not the opposite of love,
The real opposite of love is an indifference.
If you are not even ready to be angry with me,
Then everything is lost.
Actually, we are more hateful at our lover or beloved
Than at our strangers.
Love me or hate me now, while I am here.
Do not wait until I'm gone,
And then there will be only silence between us.
I can understand the difference between what you say and what you mean,
But I never understand what your silence means.
Please, let me feel that while I am here1x
So I can feel that right now.
*Excerpt from "Journey to Infinity, ISBN: 1-58235-160-0"
The devil in hell was waiting for years and years and nobody was coming to hell.
He was waiting to welcome people, but the earth was running so well and people were so good that no one was coming to hell.
Of course he became very worried.
He called an emergency council. His greatest disciples gathered together to discuss the situation.
Hell was passing through a great crisis and this could not be tolerated.
Something had to be done. So he asked for advice: "What should we do?"
One disciple suggested, "I would go to the earth and I would talk to people and try to convince them that there is no God and religions are false, and whatsoever the Bible, the Koran and the Vedas say is nonsense."
The devil said, "This won't work, because we have been doing this since the very beginning and it has not influenced people very much. Through such teaching you can convince only those who are already convinced. So it is of no use; it is not of much use1x"
Then the second disciple, subtler than the first, said, "I will go and teach people and try to convince people that whatsoever the Bible, the Koran and the Vedas say is right. There is heaven, there is God, but there is no devil and no hell, so don't be afraid. And if we can make them less afraid, they will not bother about religion at all, because all religion is based on fear."
The devil said, "Your proposal is a little better. You may be able to, you may succeed in convincing a minority, but the majority will not listen to you. They are not as much afraid of hell as they are greedy for heaven. Even if you convince them that there is no hell, they will still want to enter into heaven, and they will try to be good for that. So this also won't do much1x"
Then the third disciple, the subtlest of them all, said, "I have an idea. Give me a chance to try it. I will go and say that whatsoever religion says is absolutely true-there is God and there is devil and there is heaven and there is hell-but there is no hurry."
And the devil said, "Right1x You have the right system. You go1x"
And it is said that since then there has never been a crisis in hell.
Rather, they are worried about overpopulation.
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