"Everybody would like to be a man of peace, but just by liking one cannot become a man of peace. People go on shouting for peace and the same people go on preparing for war. The same people go on talking about peace and the same people go on piling up atom bombs, hydrogen bombs, nuclear bombs; they are not different people.
It is a very strange phenomenon. Man lives in such contradiction for the simple reason that it is easy to desire good and beautiful things, but to materialize them is a totally different thing. To dream is one thing, to make the dream a reality is another.
Everybody can afford dreams, and when you are dreaming you can dream beautiful dreams, but dreams are dreams: when you wake up they have not changed your reality even by an iota - the reality remains the same. And man becomes split: he dreams good thing about godliness, about peace, about love, and he prepares for war, for destruction, for violence.
A real man of peace will have to go through an inner transformation, only then the dream becomes a reality. Meditation is the alchemy of transforming your aggressive energies into peaceful energies. It transforms your violence into love. They are not different, it is the same energy. We have energies but we are not grown-ups. Hence our energies go berserk. Meditation is the process of growing up."
-Osho
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