"Listen to the heart, not to the dictionary.

"The heart never lies; the mind never tells the truth. The mind is a great speaker; the heart is very silent but it also expresses itself in tears.

"Your question is immensely significant because it is coming from the heart. The heart is feeling the pain because the mind has taken the word friendship in an ordinary sense, ignoring the heart. The heart is full of tears. Those tears are valuable.

"The understanding of the mind has no significance. In the world of spirituality it is only the heart that has to be listened to and followed. Your heart is giving you the answer. I am simply repeating it so that it becomes clear to you.

"The friendship with the master includes everything that is beautiful in all other relationships, and it excludes everything that is ugly in all our human relationships. It is the pure essence, the very fragrance of all our human relationships. It includes everything, but only the best part of it, the very cream of it.

"So don't be worried, rejoice that it is happening to you and that your heart is strong enough not to let the mind decide. Your heart is strong enough to be the master and let the mind be simply a servant.

Osho,
When the master is standing at the door what should the disciple do?

"The question is from somebody very intellectual – perhaps a professor. It is a mind question.

"When the master is at the door it is too late! You cannot do anything. You cannot close the door in the face of the master, you cannot invite the master inside for the simple reason the ancient scriptures of the East say the master is death – and they mean it.

"To allow the master in means you will have to die as an ego, as a personality, and that's all you know about yourself. Hence the fear, hence the question, what to do now? He is just at the door. One step more and you are finished. But there is no need to be worried.

"You will die as an ego but you will be reborn as the self, which is your reality."