Satya Nadella, the new CEO of Microsoft, while writing his first message to his employees has made an interesting statement. Paraphrasing Oscar Wilde, he wrote: “We need to believe in the impossible and remove the improbable.”
The original quote goes: “Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable”. Why? Because the impossible is just an idea which can never materialise so one doesn’t have to do anything to make it happen, but the improbable can happen if one gears up all the energies, takes the risk and strives hard. Very few have this courage so it is convenient not to believe in the improbable.
Nadella’s statement reminded me of Osho’s book compiled from his conversations with meditators: Believing in the Impossible Before Breakfast. When you believe in the impossible, you have created the situation for it to happen; it was only impossible because there was no trust on your part. Your trust makes all things possible. The rational mind doubts; it always thinks negatively and this is why it is deprived of the higher things of life. One has to explore the realm of the heart that loves adventure, which has a wider vision and can believe the unbelievable. If you want to go on evolving, ima-gine the unimaginable, reach out to the new horizons, try to go beyond the frontier of the known. One could ask though, why believe the impossible before breakfast? Now here comes the Osho touch. He masterfully turns everything into meditation.
