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 "Whatsoever you do, do it with deep
alertness; then even small things become sacred. Then
cooking or cleaning become sacred; they become worship.
"It is not a question of what you are doing, the question is
how you are doing it. You can clean the floor like a robot,
a mechanical thing; you have to clean it, so you clean it.
Then you miss something beautiful. Then you waste those
moments in only cleaning the floor. Cleaning the floor could
have been a great experience; you missed it. The floor is
cleaned but something that could have happened within you
has not happened. If you were aware, not only the floor but
you would have felt a deep cleansing.
"Clean the floor full of awareness, luminous with awareness.
Work or sit or walk, but one thing has to be a continuous
thread: make more and more moments of your life luminous
with awareness. Let the candle of awareness burn in each
moment, in each act.
"The cumulative effect is what
enlightenment is. The cumulative effect, all the moments
together, all small candles together, become a great source
of light."
Osho, The Beloved, Vol. 1, Talk #4
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