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The Future Will Go On for Eternity
When I hear you speaking of your vision,
I can't help but feel that those few daring people around you
will live to experience the new man.
But it feels more like a hundred years away
before man at large
will come to see and live
the genius of your ways
Is this true?
It is true.
Even if
it happens
in a hundred years time
it will be soon.
But the question
is significant in a totally different way.
It is not
the realization of the vision,
the coming of the new man,
a new humanity...
that will come in its own time.
The more important thing is
to be able to visualize it.
Everything great that has happened in the world
has been an idea first.
Sometimes it took hundreds of years for it
to become a reality,
but the joy
of having a vision,
an insight
into the future,
is immense.
The people who are with me
should rejoice
that they can see a possibility
of the old rotten world
disappearing
and a new
fresh human being
taking its place.
Just the vision
will change you at least,
will shift your
being from the past
to the future.
In a certain way you will start living the new man,
who has not yet come.
You will start living the new man
in small ways,
and each moment of that living
will be
a blessing.
And as you become
acquainted, within yourself,
with the explosion of the new
and the destruction of the old,
you are changing,
you are going through a revolution.
I am interested in you.
Who cares
about
what is going to happen after a hundred years?
Something must be going to happen,
but it is not our business.
And when I talk about the new man
I am really
talking
about you,
for you to become aware of the possibility,
because that very awareness will change you.
I am not interested in the future;
I am simply interested in the immediate
present.
The future will go on
for eternity,
but if your mind can be cleaned
of the past
rubbish,
and if you can see
the faraway
rising sun...
I am not interested in the sun,
I am interested in your vision,
in your capacity to see,
in your understanding,
in your hope that it is possible.
That very hope
will become a seed in you.
The new man will come
whenever
it has to come.
But the new vision can come right now.
And with the new vision
you participate
in a subtle way
with the man who has not come yet,
with the humanity
who is still
in the womb.
You start having a synchronicity,
a certain relationship.
Your roots from the past start dropping,
and you start growing your roots into the future.
But my interest,
I repeat, is basically
in you.
Neither am I interested in the past,
nor in the future.
I talk about the past so you can get rid of it;
I talk about the future
so you can remain open to it.
But you are the point
of my emphasis.
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