Are you really Alive?
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28 February, 2012
I will define the term living human being.
Living human being should be a person who wakes up like a flower - with courage, strength and confidence to explore the new leaf of life, explore so intensely, take such strong risks, that by night you should just wither away; that is fall asleep easily. Next morning, wake up ready to explore life again.
In the night, if you are not withering away, it means you have not used all your confidence; you have not used all
your courage. By night you should just wither away. It means taking all extreme decisions and steps, living in utter insecurity - this is enlightenment! I tell you, living in utter insecurity is living enlightenment.
Life is for the people who are ready to exhaust their courage. As long as you are afraid to exhaust your courage, the stored courage becomes sickness, the stored confidence becomes cowardice. Stored confidence which is not used in action is cowardice. Unused courage which is not used in your action is sickness, disease.
When your heart says, I am comfortable and very happy, stop walking. Change the route. Your heart should be beating – oh, I am taking a risk! - then walk. It is with this constant beating that your heart is beating. If not, your lungs may work, but your heart does not work. You may breathe, but you do not live.