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Don’t be afraid of falling: otherwise your legs will lose the capacity to move. Nothing is wrong in falling. Falling is part of walking: falling is part of life. Fall, get up again, and every fall will make you stronger: and every time you go astray you will come back better, more experienced, more aware. Next time the same path will not be able to distract you. Commit as many errors as you can – only don’t commit the same error again and again...
It is said about Thomas Edison that he was working on some project and he failed one thousand times. For almost three years he worked continuously, and he would fail. He tried everything, nothing seemed to work. His disciples became desperate, hopeless.
One day one disciple said. “You have done one thousand experiments. Every experiment has failed. We seem not to be moving anywhere.” Edison looked surprised; he said, “What are you saying? What do you mean? Not moving anywhere? One thousand wrong doors are closed: now the right door cannot be very far away. We have committed one thousand errors – that much we have learned. What do you mean by saying that we are wasting our time? These one thousand errors cannot attract us anymore. We are coming, we are zeroing upon the truth. How long can it escape?”
Never be afraid of errors, mistakes, of going wrong...Life is moving. You can remain sitting: then your life will be like a death. Get up and be moving. Take the risk...The fear will be there, the danger will be there. It is going to be painful - all growth is - but through pain one reaches to the ecstasy. Only through pain is ecstasy reached.
Osho
Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol 7, Ch 10, Q 3
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