s
doing--I haven't listened to much of the rumors but I guess, umm, I
don't know, that I was making love to millions of women, or something
like that, uhh, I don't know. That hasn't been the case; it might be a
wonderful idea, but to be quite honest, I haven't the time because I'm
very busy; it's very demanding running a spiritual community. It might
be a heck of a lot more fun than some of the things I do...

"I've been very fortunate without one exception; all of the women I
have ever met and have been involved with have been wonderful.
Remarkable. Absolutely remarkable. And I feel they have all been my
teachers. As are all of you my teachers...

"But I think it's time everybody grew up. And stop being so petty.
About their own lives or other people's lives. And instead, turn their
attention towards what matters: money! Sex is the preoccupation of
adolescence. Money is the preoccupation of adults. And Lakshmi is the
goddess of money...

"So I think it's time everybody adopted a more professional attitude
about their lives. In other words, don't focus so much on your
relationships. Have fun with them. Or if you don't have them, you
don't want them, have fun with that. But don't bother with what other
people in the Centre do so much...

"Sexuality, I think, is a little different for me than it is for most
people in that there is almost no body awareness whatsoever. It's just
light...

"If you can't handle the fact that someday you might be enlightened,
and still fall in love with people and love them and be with them, and
if you can't deal with that, if you hate yourself so much and hate your
sexuality so much that you think it has no light in it... If you think
it makes a difference if I have ten thousand sports cars, and ten
million girlfriends, and lead a very flashy life, and eat at only the
most fashionable restaurants, which I don't, but if that would make a
difference in what we do, in other words, if you can carry my lifestyle
to the most absurd proportions in your mind, and that would make a
difference in the meditation process, then you shouldn't work with me.
I don't think you should work with any teacher. 'Cause you don't know
what it's all about yet. You should come to the fashionable
restaurants with us and have a good time. 'Cause we have a good time.
'Cause God is in everything... "

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