As meditation grows you will feel yourself becoming soft, vulnerable — just as laughter will become easy to you, tears will also become easy to you. But these tears will not be of sadness or sorrow. These tears will be of joy, blissfulness; these tears will be of gratitude, of thankfulness. And for the first time you will know that tears are not only to express your pain, your misery, your suffering; that’s how we have used them. But they have a far greater purpose to fulfill: they are immensely beautiful when they come as an expression of ecstasy. And you will find, on the whole, expansion — that you are expanding, you are becoming bigger and bigger. Not in the sense of the ego but in the sense that your consciousness is spreading, that distances are falling away, that even far away stars are close, because your consciousness now has wings. — Osho