The Passion for the
Impossible
Darshan Diary
by Osho
individual talks with seekers   Aug.-Sept. 1976
Pune, India
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    [ A sannyasin says: When I'm in London
    working, I am very involved in my work and I feel
    how could I possibly leave it? So I'm really
    finding things difficult. ]

    Your work is good. You are doing good work
    there, but your own growth is far more important
    than your work. It is good work; if you continue,
    there is nothing wrong in it. But for your own
    growth, if you can stay a little longer, it will be
    helpful.

    And it will be helpful for the work also in the end,
    because you can help people only to the extent
    you yourself can go -- never beyond it. You can
    take people only so far. How can you take them
    beyond you? That's impossible.

    So if you grow, your work also grows with you.
    Your help becomes deeper, goes to the very
    root of problems, and does not only solve other
    people's problems, but gives them a new
    direction, a new meaning. It is one thing to solve
    people's problems. Then you help them to
    become adjusted again. You make them normal
    again. You make them capable of being in the
    work.

    But to help them to grow is totally different. In
    fact to help them to grow is to make them
    abnormal. To help them to grow means to make
    them rebellious. To help them means to take
    them beyond the society, beyond the rotten
    structure.

    To help them means to give them the hope for
    the impossible. They live surrounded by the
    impossible. They never think of the impossible...

                                                      – Osho
                   The Passion for the Impossible, ch. 1
    The Passion for the Impossible　

    Chinese pinyin:
    Dui na bu keneng de reai

    Chinese traditional:
    對那不可能的熱愛

    Chinese simplified:
    对那不可能的热爱