GAYAN 198 - BOULA -157 – The pain of life is the price paid for the  
quickening of the heart.
 
 
 
             What is sensitiveness? Sensitiveness is life itself. And  
as life has both its good and evil sides, so has sensitiveness. If one  
expects to have all life's experiences, these will have to come  
through sensitiveness. However, sensitiveness must be kept in order if  
one wants to know, understand, and appreciate all that is beautiful,  
and not to attract all the depression, sorrows, sadness, and woes of  
the earth. Once a person has become so sensitive as to be offended  
with everybody, feeling that everybody is against him, trying to wrong  
him, he is abusing his sensitiveness. He must be wise as well as  
sensitive. He must realize before being sensitive that in this world  
he is among children, among drunken men. And he should take  
everything, wherever it comes from, as he would take the actions of  
children and drunken people; then sensitiveness can be beneficial….
 
             …What is most advisable in life is to be sensitive enough  
to feel life and its beauty and to appreciate it, but at the same time  
to consider that one's soul is divine, and that all else is foreign to  
it; that all things that belong to the earth are foreign to one's  
soul. They should not touch one's soul. When objects come before the  
eyes they come into the vision of the eyes; when they are gone the  
eyes are clear. Therefore one's mind should retain nothing but beauty,  
all that is beautiful. For one can search for God in His beauty; all  
else should be forgotten. And by practicing this every day, forgetting  
all that is disagreeable, that is ugly, and remembering only what is  
beautiful and gives happiness, one will attract to oneself all the  
happiness that is in store.
 
 

 
THE ALCHEMY OF HAPPINESS  - Life, a Continual Battle (2)
 
 
 
 

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