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You can become extraordinary
How would you like to see us become as ordinary as you are?
No one ever becomes ordinary;
you can become extraordinary,
the very process of doing so removes it from being commonplace.
So there is no way
to be ordinary.
You are ordinary,
you do not have how to become such.
You have to quit doing,
you have to start living.
There are two types of people in the world
those who are constantly being made
and in their own effort to do this and that
lose the chance of being the ones who are.
They lose time, life, energy,
and doing so will never end.
This is precisely the horizon – there,
that looks as close as you can – just a few miles away.
But how many miles reaches them,
you see that the horizon has gone further,
the distance remains the same.
The person who is caught in the grid
it damages all his life,
dies unrealized,
in great desperation,
because he can see it
that he had had his whole life to live,
but
because of his desire to become something, someone,
has sacrificed everything that was available for free.
Nobody becomes ordinary,
you are ordinary.
You are born ordinary,
just like everything else in existence:
animals, birds, trees.
No bird needs to be ordinary,
no tree asks, does not ask how to be ordinary.
But man seeks this
and this process itself
makes you crazy.
Leave it to become someone else.
Dismiss the very idea that it should
you are according to any discipline, any holy book,
any theology.
Remember all that you should be like Jesus or Buddha or Mahavira,
and suddenly you will see that you are the ones you are.
We live it, blissfully, without any fault.
Existence wanted to be who you are.
If existence would like some other Jesus would create
thousands of Jesus, without any problems.
He would have made the Jews in assembly lines.
But it only makes individuals.
Existence never makes copies,
never does anyone like someone else.
This is the beautiful and the glorious being of existence.
This is a blessing
that no one like you has ever existed or will not exist,
you are just unique.
Do not harm this uniqueness
running after any purpose,
any shadows.
Now, because I tell you
it’s so nice to be ordinary,
it’s so fun to be timid,
you have also become an ordinary goal.
Your question
it would have been quite right if you had asked how to become Jesus Christ,
how to become Buddha,
how to become
many
famous.
But
self-making processes
and being ordinary are
absolutely diametrically opposed to each other.
You are at the point where you try to reach,
where can not go nowhere
You do not have to become nobody,
in this moment you are
what existence you wanted to be
do not lose this,
enjoy it.
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