Habit

One should be able to do things not according to habits but according to the

situations.

Life is continuously changing—it is a flux—and habits are stagnant. The

more you are surrounded by habits, the more you are closed to life. You are

not open, you don‘t have windows. You don‘t have any communication

with life; you go on repeating your habits. They don‘t fit; they are not the

right response to the situation, to the moment. They are always lagging

behind, they are always falling short. That‘s the failure of your life.

So remember: I am against all kinds of habits. Good or bad is not the point;

there is no good habit as such, there is no bad habit as such. Habits are all

bad because habit means something unconscious has become a dominating

factor in your life, has become decisive. You are no more the deciding

factor. The response is not coming out of awareness but out of a pattern,

structure, that you have learned in the past.

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