Everyone learns sooner or later that to be sensitive is to be vulnerable to many things. You pull yourself in, you create a barrier around yourself that is a safeguard - a safety measure. In this ugly society one has to create a barrier around himself, a wall - a subtle, transparent wall - behind which he can hide. Otherwise, one is vulnerable, and it will be very difficult to live.
That is why insensitivity sets in. It helps you to be in this ugly world without being disturbed; but there is a cost - and the cost is very much. You are at ease in this world without being disturbed, but then you cannot enter into the divine, into the total, into the whole. You cannot enter the other world.
If you are really interested in entering that world, you will have to create sensitivity, you will have to throw away all these walls, these securities. Of course, you will become vulnerable. You will feel much suffering, but that suffering is nothing in comparison to the bliss you can reach through sensitivity. The more sensitive you become, the more you will feel compassion. But you will suffer because all around you there is hell.
