The Great Secret

"Truth surrounds you. How will you find it? Truth is there
already; the basic problem is that you have no vision. The sun
is always shining but you are blind. What should a blind man
seek? The sun or sight? If you have no sight, even if the sun
is sitting next to you what will you do? You will not be able
to see it; you will remain in darkness. Sight is needed. That
sight is love. God is ever-present. He is all around you. But
you have lost your vision; you have lost the means of
experiencing him.



Love is the ability to experience. Love is sensitivity. Love is
the experience in which all your impurities are washed away and
you throw open all your doors, all your gates. Then whosoever
stands at your door is no longer an enemy or a friend but a
beloved, and you open your door to him. When you begin to feel
the whole world is yours, when you begin to see the beloved in
whosoever comes to your door, when you no longer see strangers
or enemies, when you begin to see only friends everywhere -
when this phenomenon takes place in you, know that you have
found love. And for the man who has found love what else remains
to be found? The man who has found love has found the key to
the door of God.



Understand the significance of love carefully. Nothing is
greater than love, not even God. God is achieved through love,
but love is not achieved through God. The presence of God does
not guarantee love, but the presence of love will surely bring
him to you. As Jesus has said, "Love is God." The basic question
, the fundamental problem, is seeking love. So let us clarify
at the outset how love has been lost, because the way to regain
it will only be clear when we know and understand how it has
been lost in the first place."