In the whole of the universe there are only two: the lover and the beloved.
When does gold ore become gold? When it is put through a process of fire. So the human being during the training becomes as pure as gold through suffering. It is the burning away of the dross. Suffering has a great redeeming quality. As a drop of water failing on the desert sand is sucked up immediately, so we must become nothing and nowhere ... we must disappear.
Surrender is the most difficult thing in the world while you are doing it and the easiest when it is done.
