Love.
I am one with all things –
in beauty,
in ugliness,
for whatsoever is –
there I am.
Not only in virtue
but in sin too I am a partner,
and not only heaven
but hell too is mine.
Buddha, Jesus, Lao Tzu –
it is easy to be their heir,
but Genghis, Taimur and Hitler?
They are also within me!
No, not half – I am the whole of mankind!
Whatsoever is man’s is mine –
flowers and thorns,
darkness as well as light,
and if nectar is mine, whose is poison?
Nectar and poison – both are mine.
Whoever experiences this
I call religious,
for only the anguish of such experience
can revolutionize life on earth.
-Osho
From A Cup of Tea, Letter #54
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