Just to be human is impossible.
Because that means you are saying 'Let me just remain the process, in the middle.'
Man is not a state, man is only a process.
For example if a child says, 'I don't want to become young, I don't want to become old. Let me just remain a child,' is it possible?
He is already becoming young, he is on the way. Childhood is not a state. You cannot remain in it, you cannot stick to it. It is a process.
Childhood is already going, youth is already coming. And so is youth going. Howsoever hard you try to remain young, your efforts are doomed to fail, because the youth is already turning into old age.
Just to be human, you ask. You ask the impossible. You are too ambitious.
You can become a Buddha. That is simpler. You can become a god, that is simpler.
But to ask that you would like to just remain human is impossible. Because humanity is just a passage, a voyage, a journey, a pilgrimage. It is a process, not a state.
To hope is to be human.
But to hope means to hope to go beyond. To hope means to desire beyond. To hope means to hope to surpass, to transcend.
This is really the state of a human being -- that he is always surpassing, going, going... somewhere else is the goal.
Humanity is a bridge. Don't try to be just human, otherwise you will become inhuman. Try to become superhuman; that is the only way to be human.
Try to become a god; that is the only way to be human. There is no other way. Have your goal somewhere in the stars, only then you grow.
And man is a growing phenomenon, a process. If you don't have any goal, growth stops. Then you are stuck, then you become stagnant and stale. That's what has happened to millions of people in the world. Look at their faces -- they look like zombies, as if they are asleep or drugged, stoned.
God is the goal.
You can be human only if you go on making all efforts, all possible efforts to become divine. In those very efforts, your humanity will start shining.
In those very efforts, you will become alive.
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