…with your love. Be loving to the earth. Sow the seeds of love on the earth.

The question is not for you to enter into some paradise in the skies. On the contrary, the question is how to transform this earth into paradise. It has all the potential. Just an awakening about the potential of the earth, about the potential of the people on the earth, and there will be no talk about any heaven or any paradise or any God. Man can become complete, fulfilled unto himself.

This earth is our home, it is our mother; that is why he calls his disciples “my brothers”. Neither Krishna, nor Mohammed, nor Moses, nor Buddha has ever called their disciples “my brothers”. They were far away, holy men, and you were far below, earthly, worldly. What relationship can exist between you and them? Certainly it cannot be the relationship of brothers.

May your bestowing love and your knowledge serve towards the meaning of the earth!

The earth is searching through you for its own meaning. You are the highest evolved part of the earth. Have you ever considered? – your body is earth, your brain is earth, your heart is earth. You are the highest flowering, a great metamorphosis. There seems to be no connection between the earth and your eyes, but your eyes are nothing but the eyes of the earth. It is an effort of the earth to see. Your ears are an effort of the earth to hear the music.

May your bestowing love and your knowledge serve towards the meaning of the earth! Thus I beg and entreat you….
A hundred times has spirit as well as virtue experimented and gone astray.
Yes, man was an experiment. Alas, much ignorance and error has become body in us!

This single sentence: Yes, man was an experiment, makes Zarathustra one of the greatest scientists of your inner being. Man is not a complete being; man is a becoming. You see the trees – they are beings, they are following a fixed program. They will live so long, each spring they will yield flowers and fruits – everything is fixed about them. They only grow old, they never grow up.

All animals are the same; they grow old. It is only in man that there is a distinction: he can grow old just like animals and trees, or he can grow up – in consciousness, in love, in gratitude, and can bring to the earth the meaning it has been searching for…searching for the meaning it has reached up to man. But

A hundred times has spirit as well as virtue experimented and gone astray.