Consciousness is the staircase: step by step you become more and more conscious. Upwards lust is love, but then it is conscious. Then it moves through the sex center into the world again. What a Baul calls lust is this: unconscious love is lust. People come and say to me, “What can we do? We are helpless love has happened.” This love is not the love of the Baul this is lust. You see a woman or a man and you fall in love, and you don’t know why sometimes even against yourself, in spite of yourself. Lust gives a black aura, a very evilish aura around you. Love in the eyes gives a totally different color to the face a different aura arises. And just the opposite also happens: even an ugly face becomes beautiful when there is love in the eyes. Even a beautiful face becomes ugly when lust is there in the eyes. When somebody looks at you with lust in his eyes, have you watched the face? - it becomes ugly. Love is more aesthetic lust is almost non-aesthetic.But how many people are conscious? When love is meditative, only then it is love. When love is conscious, only then it is love. When love is unconscious it is only lust and nothing else - a beautiful name for an ugly thing.Lust is always cunning and love is always compassionate. When you are the end and the other is used as a means, this is lust.

When you become the means and the other becomes the end, this is love. This is love - when you can sacrifice yourself for the other.

This is compassion - when the other becomes more valuable than you.

You need a lover and you want to possess him. Because tomorrow also you may need, the day after tomorrow also you may need. And of course, attachment is bound to be there, because you would like to possess him, and you would like to possess him or her forever. You are simply using the other for your own ends. When you are in lust you are not really thinking of the other, thinking of your beloved or lover. If love has attachment in it, it is lust, If love has no attachment in it, only then is it not lust. Remember, that is their definition of love.

When lust is transformed and you enter into the city of love, you enter unattached.

You are not getting any integration through it - what Gurdjieff used to call crystallization. And the downhill movement is very destructive: you are simply dissipating yourself. Unless you become conscious about it you cannot be creative. Lust is like roots of a tree, love is like wings of a bird - but the energy is the same. Lust moves downwards, love has started the uphill task. Lust is the same energy as love the difference is only of direction.Unless your lust becomes love you will be missing your goal. Lust is the lowest form of sex energy love, the highest form.

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