Depression

DEPRESSION - Remember this: Whenever you are depressed, wait for the
moment that the depression goes. Nothing lasts forever; the depression
will go. And when it leaves you, wait-be aware and alert-because after
the depression, after the night, there will be a dawn and the sun will
rise. If you can be alert in that moment, you will be happy that you
were depressed. You will be grateful that you were depressed because
only through your depression was this moment of happiness possible.
- But what do we do? We move in an infinite regression. We get
depressed. Then we get depressed because of the depression; a second
depression follows. If you are depressed, that's okey. Nothing is
wrong in it. It is beautiful, because through it you will learn and
mature. But then you feel badly. "Why do I get depressed? I should not
get depressed." Then you start fighting with the depression. The first
depression is good, but the second depression is unreal. And this
unreal depression will cloud your mind. You will miss the moment that
would have followed the real depression. - When depressed, be
depressed. Simply be depressed. Don't get depressed about your
depression. When depressed, simply be depressed. Don't fight it, don't
create any diversion, don't force it to go. Just allow it to happen;
it will go by itself. Life is a flux; nothing remains the same. You
are not needed; the river moves by itself, you don't have to push it.
If you are trying to push it, you are simply foolish. The river flows
by itself. Allow it to flow. - When depression is there, allow it to
be. Don't get depressed about it. If you want to remove it sooner, you
will get depressed. If you fight it, you will create a secondary
depression that is dangerous. The first depression is beautiful,
God-given. The second depression is your own. It is not God-given;
it is mental. Then you will move in mental grooves. They are infinite.
- If you get depressed, be happy that you are depressed and allow the
depression to be. Then suddenly the depression will disappear and
there will be a breakthrough. No clouds will be there and the sky will
be clear. For a single moment, heaven opens for you. If you are not
depressed about your depression you can contact, you can commune, you
can enter this heavenly gate. And once you know it, you have learned
one of the ultimate laws of life: that life uses the opposite as a
teacher, as a background. - Nothing is wrong; everything is for the
good. This is what I call a religious attitude.