You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame! When Nietzsche Wept, 2007

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When Nietzsche Wept, 2007 - I before we (Burn yourself in your own flame!)
Josef Breuer: How could I have given up everything?
Nietzsche: You'd given up everything long before you met me.
Josef Breuer: Yes, but now I have nothing.
Nietzsche: Nothing *is* everything. In order to grow strong, you must first sink your roots deep into nothingness. But learn to face your loneliest loneliness.
Josef Breuer: My wife. My children. How could I have left them?!
Nietzsche: You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame: how could you become new, if you would not first become ashes?

....It is a beautiful story—and very true. That is how it is happening in life. You are looking somewhere else for that which is already there within you. Rabbi Eisik bowed, thanked the man, traveled home.... This is the journey of religion: traveling back home. And a man who has understood life always pays his respects toward life because it has shocked him out of his dreams. He is not against life; he simply knows that he has nothing to do with life, he simply knows that he was searching in a wrong direction.

Life has always been compassionate, life has been telling you again and again that you can find nothing here—go back home. But you don't listen. You earn money, and one day money is there—then life says to you, "What have you got?" But you don't listen. Now you think you have to put your money into politics, you have to become a prime minister or a president—then everything will be okay. One day you are a prime minister, and life again says, "What have you got?" You don't listen. You go on thinking of something else and something else and something else. Life is vast—that's why many lives are wasted.

But don't be angry at life. It is not life that is frustrating you, it is you who are not listening to life. And this I call a criterion, a touchstone: if you see a saint who is against life, bitter against life, know well he has not understood yet. Otherwise he will bow down to life in deep respect and reverence, because life has awakened him out of his dreams. Life is very shocking, that's why. Life is painful. The pain comes because you are desiring something which is not possible. It doesn't come from life, it comes from your expectation.

People say that man proposes and God disposes. It has never happened. God has never disposed of anything. But in your own proposition you have disposed of something yourself. Listen to God's proposition, keep your own proposition to yourself. Keep quiet. Listen to what the whole is willing—don't try to have your private goals, don't try to have your private desires. Don't ask anything individually—the whole is moving toward its destiny.

You simply be part of it. Cooperate. Don't be in a conflict. Surrender to it. And life always sends you back to your own reality—that is why it is shocking. It shocks you because it doesn't fulfill your dreams. And it is good that life never fulfills your dreams—it always goes on disposing, in a way. It gives you a thousand and one opportunities to be frustrated so that you can understand that expectations are not good and dreams are futile and desires are never fulfilled. Then you drop desiring, you drop dreaming, you drop proposing. Suddenly you are back home and the treasure is there.

osho