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Live Intensely

Live totally, and live intensely, so that each moment becomes golden and your whole life becomes a series of golden moments.

When you live life to the fullest, you have no worries or fears.

So the question – How is it possible to relax in the certainty of death? It is possible to relax only when death is a certainty. Relaxing is difficult when things are uncertain. If you know that you are going to die today, all fear of death will disappear. What is the point of wasting time? You have one day to live: live as intensely as possible, as totally as possible.

It actually happened in a man’s life. His doctor told him, “You have only six months to live, so if you want to finish anything, finish it. If you have wanted to do anything, do it.”

The man was very rich, and he always wanted to go around the world to visit all the beautiful places, but there were so many problems that he was continuously postponing it. Now there was no time to postpone. He ordered beautiful clothes to be made for him…. People had never known him to be so extravagant: he was eating the best food, he purchased the best house in the town, he closed all his businesses. What was the need to keep them?

For six months he had more than enough – he could live like a king.

He went around the world, visiting all the beautiful places, all the beautiful people. In fact, he simply forgot to die. By the time he came back home, six months had passed a long time ago. He went to the doctor to thank him.

The doctor said, “Are you still alive? How did you manage? Your disease was such that you were going to die within six months.”

The man said, “Once it became certain that I was going to die, death was no longer a problem but a certainty. I had six months to live, so I wanted to live as multidimensionally as possible. And by living so totally and so intensely, perhaps I forgot to die at the right time.”

The doctor checked him – his disease had disappeared. These six months had been of such relaxed, deep, joyful enjoyment that the disease had to disappear….

So the first thing: The certainty of death is one of the most fortunate things. And death has never been so certain – so certain for the whole humanity. In fact, people should stop creating war materials. Instead of fighting with their neighbours, they should start singing and dancing with them. The time is so short, you cannot afford to fight. Just the shortage of time and the certainty of a death can bring a transformation…. Instead of being divided into nations, divided into religions, continuously fighting, and we could start, for the first time, enjoying this beautiful planet together.

Death cannot come to people who live intensely and totally. And even if it comes, those people who have lived totally, welcome it because it is a great relief. Just as night comes after the whole day’s hard work as a great relaxation, as a beautiful sleep, so does death….

Don’t waste your time in trivia, but live, sing, dance, love as totally and overflowing as you are capable of; and no fears will interfere, and you will not be worried about what will happen tomorrow. Today is enough unto itself. Lived, it is so full; it leaves no space to think about anything else. Unlived, worries come, fears come.