Yes And No
Love cannot remain by itself – it has no meaning. Love must be put into action.
Your no will make you more and more small and ugly. Have you ever watched? Whenever you say no, something in you shrinks and whenever you say yes, something in you expands. Whenever you say yes, you are in tune with the universe, and whenever you say no, you declare your ego as separate from life, from existence.
It is up to you. In love you will find yourself filled with yes; in hate you will find yourself filled with no. In blissfulness there is no space for no; in misery there is nothing else but no.
So it is not as simple as you think. These simple words yes and no belong to two different planes of life: no to the lowest and yes to the highest.
Yes is life-giving. And yes has not to be partial; it has to be total. Yes has not to be something against the no, otherwise it will be partial. Yes has to be so huge that it contains the no in itself. And when the yes is so huge, so enormous, so infinite, that it is capable of containing its opposite, then it becomes a sacred yes.
To live with this yes means, that one is ready to dissolve into the existence, that the dew drop is ready to drop into the ocean. But the moment the dew drop drops into the ocean it also becomes the ocean. That is prayer and that is true religion.
