His approach is that of an artist: the poet, the story-teller � and he is a master

storyteller.

Whenever somebody has experienced life, his experience has flowered into parables:
that
seems to be the easiest way to hint at that which cannot be said.

A parable is a device, a great device; it is not just an ordinary story.

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The purpose of it is not to entertain you, the purpose of it is to say something

which there is no other way to say.

Life cannot be put into a theory � it is so vast, it is so infinite.

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A theory by its very nature is closed. A theory has to be closed if it is a theory

it cannot be openended,
otherwise it will be meaningless.

A parable is open-ended: it says and yet it leaves much to be said, it only hints.

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As the navel shows something about the past, a parable shows something about the
future.

It shows that there is a possibility of growing, of being connected with existence.

If you just dissect the parable it becomes an ordinary story.

If you don�t dissect it but just drink the meaning of it, the poetry of it, the
music of it � forget the story
and just carry the significance of it � soon you will see that it indicates towards
a future, towards something
which can be but is not yet.

A parable cannot be dissected; dissect, and it will die. The meaning is

transcendental it is not in it,
it is somewhere else � it HAS to be. You have to live a parable, then you will come
to its meaning.

It has to become your heart, your breathing; it has to become your inner rhythm.

So these parables are tremendously artistic but not mere art: great religion is
contained in them.

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Whatsoever he says comes from the source, but he does not TALK ABOUT the source let
it be very clear to you.
There are two types of people: one who talks about God, he is the theologian;

one who talks God, he is the mystic.

The man who talks about God has not known God, otherwise why should he �talk
about�?
The �about� shows his ignorance.

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to live an authentic life. Only then, through your own experience,

will you be able to feel what he means by his parables.
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It is not that you can learn the theories and become informed; the information will
not help.
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Unless you know, nothing is going to help.

So if these parables create a thirst in you to know, a great desire to know.