Living dangerously

Living dangerously means whenever there are alternatives, beware: don’t choose the convenient, the comfortable, the respectable, the socially acceptable, the honorable.

Choose something that rings a bell in your heart. Choose something that you would like to do in spite of any consequences.

The coward thinks of consequences:

”If I do this, what will happen?
What will be the result?”
He is more concerned about the result.

The real man never thinks of the consequences. He thinks only of the act, in this
moment. He feels,

”This is what is appealing to me, and I am going to do it.” Then whatever happens is welcome.

He will never regret. A real man never regrets, never repents, because he has never done anything against
himself.

The coward dies thousands of times before death, and continuously regrets, repents: it would have been better if he had done that, married that man, that woman, chosen that profession,Gone to that college....

Thousands of alternatives are always there, and you cannot do them all.

The society teaches you, ”Choose the convenient, the comfortable; choose the well-trodden path

where your forefathers and their forefathers and their forefathers, since Adam and Eve, have been walking.

Choose the well-trodden path.

That is a proof: so many millions of people have passed on it, you cannot go wrong.

But remember one thing, the crowd has never had the experience of truth.

Truth has only happened to individuals.

OshO 
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