An Innocent Kind of Knowing
Be still and know.
...And I am not saying that by being still you will be ready to
know - no. Just by being still you will know. Being still and
knowing are the same phenomenon, because when you are still like a
mirror, a still lake, no ripples, then the whole firmament, the
whole sky, is reflected in the lake. The stars come down, and the
moon, and the clouds - all are reflected in tremendous beauty in the
lake. When your consciousness becomes a still mirror, a still lake,
a silent reservoir of energy, God is reflected in it.
You will not attain to knowledge, remember. You will become wise,
you will become a Buddha. You will not become a great scholar, a
great pundit, a great theologian or a philosopher. You will be a
Buddha. You will have an innocent kind of knowing: you will know how
to live, you will know how to die, you will know how to love - you
will know the real art of life. And the real art of life consists
only of three things: how to live, how to love, how to die. And
these things you will not know from scriptures; these things you
will know from your innermost core...