Live Completely

           All that we can do is to live that,

           Which we understand completely and vitally,

           Enthusiastically and with vigor.

           Then, like a flower in a garden, the perfume is spread abroad.

           So likewise, the perfume of our life will be carried by the winds.

           We do not need to do propaganda for the jasmine;

           Its perfume, its loveliness bring life.

           Only when we have not the loveliness, the beauty,

           We talk about it and thereby cover our emptiness and ugliness

           By words which have little meaning.

           As the bees come to a flower,

           And as the flower does not do any propaganda

           For itself that it has honey,

           So a living thought creates the nectar.

           If there is understanding in our hearts,

           That itself brings about the miracles of regeneration,

           Not tomorrow, but moment to moment.

           Communication is not what we express to others.

           It is the feeling that flows from one heart to another.

           And it can happen only in the silence – within and without.