To experience a transformation in the way people behave with you, learn to trust. But begin with trusting your self
A person who loves himself, sooner or later starts overflowing with
love. A person who trusts himself cannot distrust anybody, even those
who are going to deceive him, even those who have already deceived him.
Yes, he cannot even distrust them, because now he knows trust is far
more valuable than anything else.
You can cheat a person, but in
what can you cheat him? You can take some money or something else from
him. But the man who knows the beauty of trust will not be distracted by
these small things. He will still love you, he will still trust you.
And then a miracle happens: if a man really trusts you, it is impossible
to cheat him.
It happens every day in your life, too. Whenever
you trust somebody it becomes impossible for him to cheat you, to
deceive you. Sitting on the platform in a railway station, you don’t
know the person who is sitting by your side—a stranger, a complete
stranger—and you say to him, “I have to go to purchase a ticket. Please,
just take care of the luggage.” And you go. You trust an absolute
stranger. But it almost never happens that the stranger deceives you. He
could have deceived you if you had not trusted him.
Trust has a
magic in it. How can he deceive you now that you have trusted him? How
can he fall so low? He will never be able to forgive himself if he
deceives you.
There is an intrinsic quality in human consciousness
to trust and to be trusted. Everybody enjoys being trusted, it is
respect from the other person; and when you trust a stranger it is more
so. There is no reason to trust him, and still you trust him. You raise
the man to such a high pedestal, you value the man so much, it is almost
impossible for him to fall from that height. And if he falls, he will
never be able to forgive himself, he will have to carry the weight of
guilt his whole life.
A man who trusts himself comes to know the
beauty of it—comes to know that the more you trust yourself, the more
you bloom; the more you are in a state of ‘let go’ and relaxation, the
more you are settled and serene, the more you are calm, cool and quiet.
And
it is so beautiful that you start trusting more and more people,
because the more you trust, the more your calmness deepens, your
coolness goes deeper and deeper to the very core of your being. And the
more you trust, the more you soar high. A man who can trust will sooner
or later know the logic of trust. And then one day, he is bound to try
to trust the unknown.
It is only when you can trust the unknown
that you can trust a master, never before it, because the master
represents nothing but the unknown. He represents the uncharted, he
represents the infinite, the unbounded. He represents the oceanic, he
represents the wild, he represents the divine.
Start trusting
yourself—that is the fundamental lesson, the first lesson. Start loving
yourself. If you don’t love yourself, who else is going to love you? But
remember, if you only love yourself, your love will be very poor.
A
great Jewish mystic, Hillel, has said, “If you are not for yourself,
who is going to be for you?” And also, “If you are only for yourself,
then what meaning can your life ever have?”—a tremendously significant
statement. Remember it: love yourself, because if you don’t love
yourself nobody else will ever be able to love you. You cannot love a
person who hates himself.
And on this unfortunate earth, almost
everybody hates himself, everybody condemns himself. How can you love a
person who is condemnatory towards himself? He will not believe you. He
cannot love himself—how can you dare? He cannot love himself—how can you
love him? He will suspect some game, some trick. He will suspect that
you are trying to deceive him in the name of love. He will be cautious,
alert, and his suspicion will poison your being.
Nobody has ever
accepted you. Nobody has given you the feeling that you are loved and
respected, that you are needed—that this existence will miss you, that
without you this existence will not be the same, that without you there
will be a hole. Without you this universe is going to lose some poetry,
some beauty: a song will be missed, a note will be missed, there will be
a gap…nobody has told you that.
And that’s what my work here is:
to destroy the distrust that has been created in you about yourself, to
destroy all condemnation that has been imposed on you, to take it away
from you and to give you a feeling that you are loved and respected,
loved by existence.
Excerpted from The Book of Wisdom; Courtesy: Osho International Foundation/www.osho.com
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