Once You are Centered
Osho:- Once you are centred you can move to the periphery but you will be totally different.
The quality of your consciousness will have changed altogether. Then you can move to the periphery but you will never be the periphery again -- you will remain at the centre.And remaining centred at the periphery is beautiful. Then you can enjoy it; it will become a beautiful play.
Then there is no conflict; it is a game. Then it will not create tensions within you and there will be no anguish and no
anxiety around you.
And any moment that it becomes too much, too heavy on you, you can go back to the original source -- you can have a dip.
Then you will be refreshed, rejuvenated, and you can move to the periphery again. Once you know the way....
And the way is not long. You are not going anywhere else than into your own self, so it is not long.
It is just near. The only barrier is your holding on, holding to the periphery, afraid that if you leave it you will be lost. The fear feels just as if you are going to die.
Moving to the inner center is a death -- death in the sense that your identity with the periphery will die, and a new
image, a new feeling of your being will arise.