I know a young lady, beautiful girl, intelligent, one of our meditators, everytime she met a man, she used to like the man, the man used to like her, but something just happened where it just ended, all the time. One, two, three, four, five, don’t know how many, beautiful friendships but they could just not lead into anything or towards anything.

So, in acceptance, you surrender first to yourself by accepting the blockages and the weaknesses. When one does that and when one is honest with oneself, immediately the other force takes over and faces us. It knocks us right on the head. You see its there, seen, tangible and then we surrender to that force. That is what is meant by ‘Thy will be done’.

Now, when we have the principle of acceptance, what do we accept? Firstly we accept the fact that my heart feels pinched. Right. That means facing reality. See these two words contain every bit of practical living that you could ever think of and we can write volumes and volumes on it.

Cuando hablamos de abrir el corazón, admitimos nuestra cercanía al corazón y el corazón parece como si estuviera pinchado, atrapado, y cuando digo que parece que está pinchado, significa que la totalidad de tu personalidad está atrapada, está pasando por una contracción sin la expansión. Y en esta contracción, en este estar pinchado, todo tipo de dolores, todo tipo de decepciones son sentidas.

Now it is very hard, it is very hard to start with the mind in opening up the mind, so that the heart could shine through. But it is so much easier for the heart to shine through in its own ‘isness’ through the mind and all the crevices of the mind. All the dirt in the mind is automatically washed away in this force, this torrent of this heart energy.

Si un hombre dice «hoy tengo que ser más amable, más generoso, más amante», ¿acaso dice eso el corazón?, no, el corazón no dice eso. La mente lo dice, porque la mente reconoce o siente la cercanía del corazón.