A Religious Mind Must Know the Extraordinary Sense of Beauty

You go to the secret valley to sit in peace and ask the philosophical question: What is a religious mind?

You know that a mind that is inquiring into this question of what a religious mind is must be aware of, must know the extraordinary state of beauty.

It can only see what beauty is when there is total abandonment of the “me,” and in that abandonment there is intensity, there is love of wisdom; otherwise love doesn’t exist at all.

Love is not pleasure, desire, lust. It is not merely associated with sex. Love is spaciousness. Beauty unfolds in space, and space unfolds from the heart.

You go to the secret springs, because a religious mind is a mind that knows that the streams of virtue and discipline will form the river that flows to the ocean.