The final chapter of Osho has been the best; the rest falls away in insignificance. This was the part I was supposed to read. It made me smile knowing I am on my way to intuition, that so much of this already makes sense. There is no destination in life - only the journey - Osho teaches us that there's direction and direction is good but a destination is not. I get caught up with my friends' destinations, their illusions, but that's all they are - destinations to create a future that noone can secure.

I just scribbled down this note never to the 'afterword' destination, partly for me, partly for Julia who I hope to give the book onto.

Have direction, make the most of everyday, be joyful, follow your inner guide and remember there's no destination, only a journey.

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A destination is a clear-cut thing: direction is intuitive. A destination is something outside of you, more like a thing. A direction is an inner feeling, not an object, can feel direction, you cannot know it. Destination is in the future. Once decided, you start manipulating your life toward it, steering your life toward it.
How can you decide the future? Who are you to decide the unknown? How is it possible to fix the future. By fixing your a destination your future is no longer a future because it is no longer open.

You cannot decide direction, you can only live this moment that is available to you. By living it, direction arises.  Destination is fixed by the mind; direction is earned by living.
Direction? - one simply lives the moment in deep trust that life will decide. One lives this moment so totally that out of this totality a freshness is born. Out of this totality the past dissolves and the future starts taking shape. But this shape is not given by you, this shape is earned by you.

Yes, a map is not needed; great passion, great desire to discover, is needed. Then I leave you alone. Then you go on your own. Move into the vast, into the infinite, and by and by, learn to trust it.

Leave yourself in the hands of life.

Because this moment, this is it. It may be life, it may be death; it may be success, it may be failure, it may be happiness, it may be unhappiness.

Each moment....this is it.

Mind blowing. It took the whole book, I couldnt connect with it at all, the parables didnt move me, didnt seem relevant then he leaves with this. The key to life. 

I still can't distinguish the difference between my inner fear (my mind) and my inner guide but I do have faith in life taking us where we need to go, giving us lessons we need to learn, experiences we need to live, mistakes we have to make, love we need to feel, sadness we cannot fathom, time alone, time with friends - encounters with guides, soul mates. Knowing there is a reason, that makes it all so much easier. Some call it destiny, I'm not sure that is what it is, but it's faith that everything happens for a reason, and if we listen to our hearts and follow that, we can never go wrong. It doesnt mean life wont be hard, but it gives me faith that what I face and what happens is for a higher good and reason and I can get through it.