the only SIN

HAVE YOU EVER THOUGHT ABOUT IT, THAT YOU EXIST? It seems so impossible; there is no reason why. But you don't look at it because it has been given to you as a gift; you have not paid for it. That's why you are unaware, oblivious of it: A TREMENDOUS RICHNESS, THAT YOU ARE, that this moment you are conscious and alive and you can see the flowers, and you can smell the fragrance, and you can listen to the songs, AND YOU CAN EVEN ENCOUNTER A JESUS AND A BUDDHA. The sheer impossibility of it! -- just think of it.

THERE IS NO REASON WHY YOU ARE; it is just out of the blue. That is the meaning of "the grace of God". If you were not there, there is no way to be. If you were not there, you could not complain anywhere; there is no court of appeal. If you were not there, you are simply not there; you could not do anything about it.

You ARE. And you are conscious, and you are full of love, and you are wasting it -- a great gift will be wasted. You are not using it, you are not using the opportunity to grow. THE MORE YOU GROW, THE GREATER THE GIFTS BECOME AVAILABLE TO YOU. This is just the beginning, this is just the alpha; and you don't know what the omega is. Christ is the omega point. But if you go on living now, deeply committed to life, not postponing, going deeper and deeper every moment, living as wholly as possible, you will reach to the omega point. Even at the alpha point life is tremendously beautiful; what to say about the omega point? And you will never find any point for mourning.

IF YOU LIVE IT, LIFE IS ALWAYS A DEEP GRATITUDE. If you don't live it, things go sour, things become bitter: one mourns, one complains, one loses the capacity for thankfulness. Prayer disappears and then you live an angry life or a sorrowful life -- that simply means you missed. Nobody else is responsible, only you; ONLY YOU, nobody else is responsible. The responsibility is totally yours because you are free to choose -- to die, or to commit a slow suicide.

As I see it, millions of people go on simply committing a slow suicide. They go on poisoning themselves. THROUGH POSTPONING, YOU POISON YOURSELF. Then even that which is given to you will have to be taken away. And Jesus is perfectly true when he says this, and it is one of the most fundamental laws of life: THAT IF YOU HAVE, MORE WILL BE GIVEN TO YOU; IF YOU DON'T HAVE, EVEN THAT WHICH YOU HAVE WILL BE TAKEN AWAY. That is mourning.

Use! Be creative! Let life be a great adventure. The only sin there is, is if your life is not an adventure. Then, you are a sinner.