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Why can't we let one another be?
Because we are not ourselves, so how can we allow others to be themselves?
You can allow the other only that which you have allowed yourself.
You cannot allow more than that. Remember it.
If you are not free, you will not allow freedom to anybody else.
If you are repressed, you will not allow expression to others.
Whatsoever you are, you go on trying to enforce it on others. You would like everybody to
just be an image of you.
That gives you a very egoistic feeling; that everybody is imitating you, everybody is a
And it puts you at ease that everybody is like that.
If somebody is free and you allow freedom and you yourself are not free, you will feel
very much depressed by the comparison.
That's how repression has been perpetuated down the ages.
The parents were repressed by their parents. They have repressed their children, and these
children will repress their children. And it is a chain. And it is very difficult to
break it.
Only rarely somebody gathers so much courage and becomes so individualistic that he jumps
out of the chain. To jump out of this chain is to jump out of the world.
Then you are no more conditioned by anybody, and then you never condition anybody. Then
you live in freedom, and you impart freedom. But you can give only that which you have.
Being you have not, how can allow others? You are constantly finding ways and means
of how to destroy the freedom of the other, how to dominate, how to possess, how to command,
how to force obedience...
You are not at ease. You have not yet come home.
You are not fulfilled, so you cannot anybody else to be fulfilled. You are like a barren
tree. You can not allow other trees to have fruits, because that will hurt you very much.
You ask, "why can't we let one another be?" Because you are not.
So start from the very beginning... first be. First allow yourself to be. Then you will
capable of allowing others also.