What have you done with your life?
Clive
You have lived 30 years, or 80 years. What have you done with your
life?
Yes sir.
Don't say I'm going to fulfil next life. There is only the present.
The beauty of the present. The richness of the present.
You've has this life, this extraordinary thing called life, in which
there is sorrow, pleasure, fear. Guilt, and all the tortures and the
loneliness, and the despair of life. And the beauty of life. You've
had it. And what have you done with it?
Do consider it.
And it's very important to ask, and to answer it. Not to the speaker,
to your self.
When you ask it, don't go to bed with sorrow because you have done
nothing. You've done absolutely nothing. A life was given to you, the
most precious thing in the world, and what have you done? Distorted
it, tortured it, torn it to pieces. Divided it. Brought about
violence, destruction, hatred. Without love, without compassion,
without passion.
So when you ask, and I hope you are asking, seriously, what you have
done with your life; when you ask that question inevitably, if you are
all sensitive, you'll have tears in your eyes. But, you'll have tears
because you're thinking of the past, what you might have done. Tears
are self pity. So don't have tears. For the question is asked, and the
answer lies only in the present. Not tomorrow or in the past. Which
means what are you doing now? With your life that has been given. Now,
not tomorrow. And if you can answer it you will find out what love
is."
Talk 5 Bombay 14th Dec. 1969