A Mind Rich with Innocense ( 01 May 2006)

A Mind Rich with InnocenceTruth, the real God—the real God, not the God that man has made— does not want amind that has been destroyed, petty, shallow, narrow, limited. It needs a healthymind to appreciate it; it needs a rich mind—rich, not with knowledge but withinnocence—a mind upon which there has never been a scratch of experience, a mindthat is free from time. The gods that you have invented for your own comforts accepttorture; they accept a mind that is being made dull. But the real thing does notwant it; it wants a total, complete human being whose heart is full, rich, clear,capable of intense feeling, capable of seeing the beauty of a tree, the smile of achild, and the agony of a woman who has never had a full meal.You have to have this extraordinary feeling, this sensitivity to everything—to theanimal, to the cat that walks across the wall, to the squalor, the dirt, the filthof human beings in poverty, in despair. You have to be sensitive—which is to feelintensely, not in any particular direction, which is not an emotion which comes andgoes, but which is to be sensitive with your nerves, with your eyes, with your body,with your ears, with your voice. You have to be sensitive completely all the time.Unless you are so completely sensitive, there is no intelligence. Intelligence comeswith sensitivity and observation.The Book of Life - May 1