' Here I Stand '...
Unless I am convicted by Scripture and plain reason-I do not accept the authority of popes and councils, for they have contradicted each other-my conscience is captive to the Word of God. I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I cannot do otherwise. God help me. Amen.
...........................Martin Luther
' Talking '...
Talking much is a sign of vanity, for the one who is lavish with words is cheap in deeds.
.......................................Walter Raleigh
' The Secret of Happiness '...
The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.
........................William Penn
' The Greatest Loss '...
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
.............................Norman Cousins
' Three Degrees of Knowledge '...
Knowledge has three degrees--opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
...................................Plotinus
' Troubles '...
But this I know: if all mankind were to take their troubles to market with the idea of exchanging them, anyone seeing what his neighbor's troubles were like would be glad to go home with his own.
................................Herodotus
' Behavior '...
I no longer listen to what people say, I just watch what they do. Behavior never lies.
..............................Winston Churchill
' Enthusiasm '...
I would rather hire a man with enthusiasm, than a man who knows everything.
........................John D. Rockefeller
' Negative Thoughts '...
When you close the door of your mind to negative thoughts, the door of opportunity opens to you.
..........................Napoleon Hill
' Create Trust '...
When you make a commitment, you create hope. When you keep a commitment you create trust!
....................John C. Maxwell
' Think Lovingly '...
Think lovingly, speak lovingly, act lovingly, and every need shall be supplied.
...............................James Allen
' Your Gardian Angel '...
Trust your intuition. It is the best friend you will ever have.
.............................Judith Orloff
' Our Deepest Fear '...
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
............................Marianne Williamson
' Always say Yes '...
Always say 'yes' to the present moment... Surrender to what is. Say 'yes' to life - and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.
..................................Eckhart Tolle
' Progress of Wisdom '...
Do not be impatient with your seemingly slow progress. Do not try to run faster than you presently can. If you are studying, reflecting and trying, you are making progress whether you are aware of it or not. A traveler walking the road in the darkness of night is still going forward. Someday, some way, everything will break open, like the natural unfolding of a rosebud.
..............................Vernon Howard
' Light and Dark '...
We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are.
....................................J. K. Rowling
' Only in Books '...
The world was a terrible place, cruel, pitiless, dark as a bad dream. Not a good place to live. Only in books could you find pity, comfort, happiness - and love. Books loved anyone who opened them, they gave you security and friendship and didn't ask anything in return; they never went away, never, not even when you treated them badly.
..............................Cornelia Funke
' Smile '...
Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.
...........................Dr. Seuss
' Happiness '...
Happiness is anyone and anything that's loved by you.
......................Charles M. Schulz
' Know It or Not '...
When you seek truth, you seek God whether you know it or not.
..........................Edith Stein
' Love Endures Everything '...
Love endures everything, love is stronger than death, love fears nothing.
...........................Mary Faustina Kowalska
' Divinity Hidden '...
Understand this well: there is something holy, something divine hidden in the most ordinary situations, and it is up to each one of you to discover it.
...................................Josemaria Escriva
' Prayer '...
Prayer is the raising of the mind to God. We must always remember this. The actual words matter less.
.......................Pope John XXIII
' Moksha '...
Moksha is derived from the root, muc, which means to free, let go, release, liberate.... In Buddhism,, It is called Enlightenment... It is the Surrender of the 'ego-desire' to the Universe,,, Freeing You as Divine Consciousness back Home to Light, Love, and Knowledge............. thomas
' Real Power '...
Real power is achieved when the ruling class controls the material essentials of life, granting and withholding them from the masses as if they were privileges.
.......................................George Orwell
' Righteousness '...
Pride is concerned with who is right. Humility is concerned with what is right.
.............................Ezra Taft Benson
' Procrastination '...
Do not procrastinate. Someone has said that procrastination is the thief of time. Actually, procrastination is much more. It is the thief of our self-respect. It nags at us and spoils our fun. It deprives us of the fullest realization of our ambitions and hopes.
..................................Thomas S. Monson
' The Nazarine Speaks '...
Through John Smallman
.........................................
As you wait most expectantly, and filled with excitement for the grand awakening, it is essential that you continue to visit the holy inner sanctuaries deep within yourselves every day to reset the intent to be only loving whatever arises. You are all Love incarnate, but for the most part you become so busy with your daily human lives, and distracted from the reality of who you truly are by the stress of those daily lives as humans, that you remain in your illusory or dream-like state of unawareness of your authentic nature. The world of form seems very real, because this was your intention when you built it, and this is indeed very confusing for you as you live within it today.
Visiting your holy inner sanctuaries and resetting your loving intent reminds you, for a moment or two, that you are Love incarnate, then you get re-distracted by the demands of daily life. But those momentary periods of awareness do most effectively redirect each one of you toward your pre-incarnationally chosen life path, and beneath the daily life distractions you do, if rather unconsciously, follow that path.
Because you chose your paths, with divine assistance and enormous encouragement, you cannot fail to follow them precisely as intended. Therefore, whenever any sense of unworthiness, incompetence, or not being good enough arises, dismiss it because it is completely invalid. You are, each and every one of you, totally competent to follow the paths you planned for yourselves before incarnating to be on Earth as humans in this time of your awakening. Trust yourselves . . . God does, and He knows that you will succeed.
You cannot be unaware of the immense amount of suffering that is presently being experienced by so many on Planet Earth right now, and setting the intent to send love to those in pain or suffering is very effective and potent. Your task, as well as to follow your own individual and perfectly planned life paths, is to assist others by allowing Love to flow through you to all of humanity without any exceptions whatsoever. Let go of any felt need to judge anyone else. You do not and cannot know or understand the path that another is following – after all you frequently have great difficulty making sense of your own paths.
Everyone, absolutely everyone, is following their own individual paths perfectly, and what is occurring all across the planet right now is an enormous movement towards an awareness of the infinite power of Love, and an awareness that it is the only power available; and of course, therefore, you need nothing else! As more and more of humanity opens to this Truth and invites Love into their hearts, and then allows and intends for It to flow through them to all of humankind, the awakening process intensifies, because Love is filling more and more hearts and flowing most vigorously through them to amalgamate and integrate with the Tsunami of Love that has been bathing and embracing the world for quite a number of decades in preparation for this moment of NOW.
You are on Earth now in form as humans to awaken. You chose to be here to participate in this miraculous event, and you are all highly honored for doing so, because, immersed in the illusion as you are, you are intensely experiencing the sense of separation from your Source that it is intended to provide. Separation is unreal, and has not and never will occur, but while you are in form you do experience it incredibly realistically, and often that can cause you a lot of pain and suffering. When you awaken that will all be gone, as will all painful and disturbing or unsettling memories, because in Reality, in the eternal Presence of Mother/Father/God there is only Love and all that is in complete alignment with It – joy, peace, bliss, happiness, and an infinite variety of etceteras.
As you wait with enthusiastic anticipation for THE moment of awakening, know that all is proceeding perfectly, just as divinely willed, and rest assured that the instant in which it blooms has been most magnificently prepared to astound you all in your remembering and consequent re-experiencing of the beauty and brilliance that Reality is – the extreme joy of being at One with and eternally in the Presence of your infinitely loving Source. That state cannot be imagined, it can only be experienced, and WHAT a magnificent experience that is going to be for you all!
So, go within daily, to your holy inner sanctuaries, and invite Love into your hearts, then reset the intent that It flows through you to bless and embrace all those you know and love, and also, of course because all are one, ALL sentient life forms, and thus bring all to their most glorious moment of awakening.
Your loving brother, Jesus.
' Now '...
Why should you trouble yourself about the future? You do not even properly know about the present. Take care of the present, the future will take care of itself.
..............................Ramana Maharshi
' Pride '...
Do not be proud of wealth, people, relations and friends, or youth. All these are snatched by time in the blink of an eye. Giving up this illusory world, know and attain the Supreme.
.............................Adi Shankara
' The Beloved '...
The Beloved is inside you and also inside me. You know the tree is hidden inside the seed. Let your arrogance go. None of us has gone far. Inside love there is more power than we realize.
..............................Kabi
' What Kills the Ego '...
The ego can exist only if you take yourself and everything seriously. Nothing kills the ego like playfulness, like laughter. When you start taking life as fun, the ego has to die, it cannot exist anymore. Ego is illness; it needs an atmosphere of sadness to exist. Seriousness creates the sadness in you. Sadness is a necessary soil for the ego. Hence your saints are so serious, for the simple reason that they are the most egoistic people on the earth. They may be trying to be humble, but they are very proud of their humbleness. They take their humbleness very seriously.
....................................Rajneesh
' What we Do '...
It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.
......................Jane Austen
' Christmas,,, 2022 '...
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.
...................................Charles Dickens
' Intellectual and Spiritual '...
The most dangerous condition for a man or a nation is when his intellectual side is more developed than his spiritual. Is that not exactly the condition of the world today?
..............................Arthur Conan Doyle
' Stronger than Hate '...
Let your love be stronger than your hate or anger. Learn the wisdom of compromise, for it is better to bend a little than to break.
................................H. G. Wells
' Self-education '...
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. The only function of a school is to make self-education easier; failing that, it does nothing.
.............................Isaac Asimov
' Happiness is Beauty '...
Happiness lies in thinking or doing that which one considers beautiful.
Bowl of Saki, by Hazrat Inayat Khan
Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan:
......................................................................
What is really good? The answer is, there is no such thing as good or evil.
There is beauty. That which is beautiful, we call good. That which is ugly
compared with the beautiful, we call evil: whether it is custom, idea, thought
or action. This shows that this whole phenomenon of the universe is the
phenomenon of beauty. Every soul has an inclination to admire beauty, to seek
for beauty, to love beauty, and to develop beauty. Even God loves beauty.
In all ages the various religions have given different standards of good and
evil, calling them virtue and sin. The virtue of one nation has been the sin of
another. The virtue of the latter is the sin of the former. Travel as we may
through the world, or read the histories and traditions of nations as we may, we
shall still find that what one calls evil, another calls good. That is why no
one can succeed in making a universal standard for good and evil. The
discrimination between good and evil is in man's soul. Every man can judge that
for himself, because in every man is the sense of admiration of beauty. But he
is not satisfied with what he does himself, he feels a discomfort, a disgust
with his own efforts. There are many people who continue some weakness or some
mistake, or who are intoxicated by some action which the world calls evil or
which they themselves call evil, yet go on doing it. But a day comes when they
also are disgusted. Then they wish for suicide. There is no more happiness for
them. Happiness only lies in thinking or doing that which one considers
beautiful. Such an act becomes a virtue or goodness. That goodness is beauty.
Man is always seeking for beauty, and yet he is unaware of the treasure of
beauty that is hidden in his own heart. He strives after it throughout his whole
life. It is as if he was in pursuit of the horizon: the further he proceeds, the
further the horizon seems to have moved away. For there are two aims: the one is
real, and the other false. That which is false is momentary, transitory, and
unreliable - wealth, power, fame, and position are all snatched from one hand by
the other. ... Man wants something in life upon which he can rely; and this
shows, whether he believes in a deity or not, that he is constantly seeking for
God. He seeks for Him not knowing that he is seeking for God. Nevertheless,
every soul is pursuing some reality, something to hold on to; trying to grasp
something which will prove dependable, a beauty that cannot change and that one
can always look upon as one's own, a beauty that one feels will last forever.
And where can one find it? Within one's own heart. And it is the art of finding
that beauty, of developing, improving, and spreading that beauty through life,
allowing it to manifest before the inner and outer view, which one calls the art
of the mystic.
' Metaphysics and Mathematics '...
Thus metaphysics and mathematics are, among all the sciences that belong to reason, those in which imagination has the greatest role. I beg pardon of those delicate spirits who are detractors of mathematics for saying this . . . . The imagination in a mathematician who creates makes no less difference than in a poet who invents. . . . Of all the great men of antiquity, Archimedes may be the one who most deserves to be placed beside Homer.
......................................Jean le Rond d'Alembert
' Power '...
Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.
............................Voltaire
' Losing the Ego '...
I remember the first time I had this astonishing experience. I was fond of disappearing from London whenever the weather allowed and wandering alongside the river Thames in its more picturesque country parts. If the day was sunny I would stretch my feet out, lie down in the grass, pull out notebook and pen from my pocket--knowing that thoughts would eventually arise that would have for me an instructive or even revelatory nature, apart from those ordinary ones which were merely expressive.
One day, while I was waiting for these thoughts to arise, I lost the feeling that I was there at all. I seemed to dissolve and vanish from that place, but not from consciousness. Something was there, a presence, certainly not me, but I was fully aware of it. It seemed to be something of the highest importance, the only thing that mattered.
After a few minutes I came back, discovered myself in time and space again; but a great peace had touched me and a very benevolent feeling was still with me. I looked at the trees, the shrubs, the flowers, and the grass and felt a tremendous sympathy with them and then and then when I thought of other persons a tremendous benevolence towards them.
...................................Paul Brunton
' Happiness '...
Maybe happiness is this: not feeling like you should be elsewhere, doing something else, being someone else.
..............................Isaac Asimov
' Practice any Art '...
Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what's inside you, to make your soul grow.
......................Kurt Vonnegut
' Toleration of Wrong '...
Every time we turn our heads the other way when we see the law flouted, when we tolerate what we know to be wrong, when we close our eyes and ears to the corrupt because we are too busy or too frightened, when we fail to speak up and speak out, we strike a blow against freedom and decency and justice.
.......................Robert Kennedy
' The Dark Night '...
The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
......................Fyodor Dostoevsky
' Walking '...
Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
.................Albert Camus
' Metaphysics '...
The way towards 'wisdom' or towards 'freedom' is the way towards your inner being. This is the simplest definition of metaphysics.
.................................Mircea Eliade
' Follow your Bliss '...
Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss.
...............................Joseph Campbell
' The Number pi '...
The soul may not be destroyed. The soul goes on forever. Like the number pi, it is without cessation or conclusion. Like pi it is a constant. Pi is an irrational number, incapable of being made into a fraction, impossible to divide from itself. So, too, the soul is an irrational, indivisible equation that perfectly expresses one thing: you.
................................Joe Hill
' A Compassionate Heart '...
Imagine you are walking in the woods and you see a small dog sitting by a tree. As you approach it, it suddenly lunges at you, teeth bared. You are frightened and angry. But then you notice that one of its legs is caught in a trap. Immediately your mood shifts from anger to concern: You see that the dog's aggression is coming from a place of vulnerability and pain. This applies to all of us. When we behave in hurtful ways, it is because we are caught in some kind of trap. The more we look through the eyes of wisdom at ourselves and one another, the more we cultivate a compassionate heart.
...................................Tara Brach
' The Power of Belief '...
Thoughts are just moving through consciousness. They have no power. Nothing has reality until you reach it, grab it, and somehow impregnate it with the power of belief.
.............................Adyashanti
' Non-Duality '...
You are not separate from the whole. You are one with the sun, the earth, the air. You don’t have a life. You are life.
..................................Eckhart Tolle
' Human Nonsense '...
See human nonsense as nonsense and save years of trying to make sense out of it.
.................................Vernon Howard
' Is Society Doomed ?'...
When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion - when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors - when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you - when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - you may know that your society is doomed.
...............................Ayn Rand
' Liberty '...
When we prohibit others from being different, we end up forfeiting our own right to Liberty.
...................................John Webster
' Manifestation '...
The true way to gain much is never to desire to gain too much.
...........................Francis Beaumont
' Life is Short '...
When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.
....................................E. W. Howe
' Ignorance '...
Ignorance ain't not knowin' stuff; ignorance is knowin' stuff that AIN'T TRUE.
.......................Josh Billings
' Matter and Spirit '...
Life is the hyphen between matter and spirit.
......................Augustus William Hare
' The Power of Life '...
The power of life that is buried deep inside you will never rise up until you have become convinced that you're walking the only path open for you.
.....................Kosho Uchiyama
' Finding Truth '...
If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?
.................................Dogen
' Breathing '...
Breathing in, I am aware that I am breathing in.
Breathing out, I am aware that I am breathing out.
Breathing in, I am grateful for this moment.
Breathing out, I smile.
Breathing in, I am aware of the preciousness of this day.
Breathing out, I vow to live deeply in this day.
....................................Nhat Hanh
' Inner Peace '...
When we start to feel anxious or depressed, instead of asking, "What do I need to get to be happy?" The question becomes, "What am I doing to disturb the inner peace that I already have?"
.........................D.T. Suzuki
' True Love '...
It is only true love when you have no choice. Love is the most highly valued disease that is identified by the symptom of You-can´t-help-it.
.....................................Martin Walser
' Action has Magic '...
The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. Whatever you think you can do, or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, power and grace.
.............................Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
' What is Life ?'...
What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough: for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.
..............................Pedro Calderon de la Barca
' Tranquility '...
The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.
.......................James Allen
' The Meaning of Life '...
The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.
.......................Pablo Picasso
' Purest Feelings '...
Take pleasure in your dreams; relish your principles and drape your purest feelings on the heart of a precious lover.
...........................Giotto di Bondone
' Light '...
For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at every moment; but the surrounding atmosphere brings it to life - the light and the air which vary continually. For me, it is only the surrounding atmosphere which gives subjects their true value.
..........................Claude Monet
' The Best Portion '...
That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.
.....................William Wordsworth
' Your Imaginary Life '...
Everybody has his own theatre, in which he is manager, actor, prompter, playwright, sceneshifter, boxkeeper, doorkeeper, all in one, and audience into the bargain.
...............................Julius Charles Hare
' Emptiness '...
He who has seen everything empty itself is close to knowing what everything is filled with.
..............................Antonio Porchia
' Free Speech '...
Free speech is my right to say what you don't want to hear.
.................George Orwell
' Destroying a Culture '...
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
.............................Ray Bradbury
' I Exist '...
Sir,' I said to the universe, 'I exist.' 'That,' said the universe, 'creates no sense of obligation in me whatsoever.
...............................Douglas Adams
' Belief '...
Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.
..................Edgar Allan Poe
' Unselfish Love '...
If we give what we treasure most to a Being we love with all our hearts, if we can do that without expecting anything in return, then the world becomes a beautiful place.
.................................Orhan Pamuk
' Humor '...
Humor is really one of the hardest things to define, very hard. And it's very ambiguous. You have it or you don't. You can't attain it. There are terrible forms of professional humor, the humorists' humor. That can be awful. It depresses me because it is artificial. You can't always be humorous, but a professional humorist must. That is a sad phenomenon.
..................................Heinrich Böll
' Time '...
If the years of youth are experienced slowly, while the later years of life hurtle past at an ever-increasing speed, it must be habit that causes it. We know full well that the insertion of new habits or the changing of old ones is the only way to preserve life, to renew our sense of time, to rejuvenate, intensify, and retard our experience of time - and thereby renew our sense of life itself. That is the reason for every change of scenery and air.
................................Thomas Mann
' Lies '...
A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others. When he has no respect for anyone, he can no longer love, and, in order to divert himself, having no love in him, he yields to his impulses, indulges in the lowest forms of pleasure, and behaves in the end like an animal. And it all comes from lying - lying to others and to yourself.
....................Fyodor Dostoevsky
' United States of Corporations '...
The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That's the only difference.
..........................Ralph Nader
' Empathy '...
Empathy is not simply a matter of trying to imagine what others are going through, but having the will to muster enough courage to do something about it. In a way, empathy is predicated upon hope.
..................Cornel West
' Choose to Love '...
When we choose to love, we choose to move against fear, against alienation and separation. The choice to love is a choice to connect, to find ourselves in the other.
...................Bell Hooks
' Miracles '...
Around us, life bursts with miracles--a glass of water, a ray of sunshine, a leaf, a caterpillar, a flower, laughter, raindrops. If you live in awareness, it is easy to see miracles everywhere. Each human being is a multiplicity of miracles. Eyes that see thousands of colors, shapes, and forms; ears that hear a bee flying or a thunderclap; a brain that ponders a speck of dust as easily as the entire cosmos; a heart that beats in rhythm with the heartbeat of all beings. When we are tired and feel discouraged by life's daily struggles, we may not notice these miracles, but they are always there.
.......................Nhat Hanh
' Patriotism '...
Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else.
.....................Theodore Roosevelt
' Silencing Opposition '...
Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.
..............................Harry S. Truman
' To Serve '...
We the people, elect leaders not to rule but to serve
.......................Dwight D. Eisenhower
' Many Races '...
We are a nation of many nationalities, many races, many religions-bound together by a single unity, the unity of freedom and equality. Whoever seeks to set one nationality against another, seeks to degrade all nationalities.
.......................Franklin D. Roosevelt
' Silence '...
Nothing more enhances authority than silence. It is the crowning virtue of the strong, the refuge of the weak, the modesty of the proud, the pride of the humble, the prudence of the wise, and the sense of fools. To speak is to . . . dissipate one's strength; whereas what action demands is concentration. Silence is a necessary preliminary to the ordering of one's thoughts.
......................Charles de Gaulle
' Only Love is Real '...
John Smallman................... From a Nazarine Mystic..................................
As you are well aware humanity is awakening right now! This is God’s Will, God’s Will for humanity, and God’s Will always comes to fruition just as intended, and His Will is always for eternal peace, joy, and harmonious cooperation throughout heaven – Reality. When you awaken and see the divine gardens of heaven, their brilliance and beauty will most joyfully astound you. To awaken is your divine and fully assured destiny, and the moment for that to happen is closer than you can possibly imagine.
Renew your faith and trust in God regularly during your day, because doing so magnificently intensifies the power and effect of your individual human energy fields as they interact with each other all across Planet Earth. Your presence in form now is an irreplaceable and essential aspect of the collective awakening process, and it is why you chose to be on Earth at this moment in the process. There are no accidents!
Your presence on Earth as humans at this moment is the divine Will of Mother/Father/God, and also, of course, your will. Even though, as humans in form, it is almost impossible for you to be aware that your wills and the Will of God are constantly in alignment. But yes, your collective wills are always in alignment with the Will of God.
Your response to that is most likely: “How can that be when there is presently so much pain and suffering on Earth, and when it has been like this throughout our entire history as humans?”
I will just remind you once more that what you are experiencing is unreal. You collectively chose, but a moment ago, to build and enter an unreal or dream environment where you could experience separation from Source. A state that is completely unreal and which cannot possibly exist. Because you have the Power of God, given freely and infinitely lovingly to you at the moment of your creation, along with your free will, you were able to build an hallucination, a dream or nightmare illusion of absolutely terrifying proportions – a vast sense of separation from Source. When you chose to engage with it by entering into it, you thought you were taking part in a harmless and amusing game. You really were not fully mindful of what you had chosen to do. Now you are experiencing the results of that insane choice, and which appear to you to have been the case for eons of time. And again, I remind you, it is unreal!
Your awakening is your collective choice to dissolve that unreal environment and return to full awareness of your inseparable Oneness with Mother/Father/God – LOVE. The magnificence and brilliance of that return to Reality was divinely planned at the same moment that you chose to hide Reality from yourselves, because God in His infinite Love and Wisdom knew that you would become totally lost in the experience that you had chosen to undergo, and would be unable to find your way Home without holy guidance. Wandering through that unreal environment you came upon signs and indicators offering you guidance, guidance that initially you chose to ignore. Various holy ones or mystics have, on countless occasions over the eons, entered your dream to show you the way Home, and some of them have been most highly revered by parts of the collective, and their words of guidance have been widely shared. Now, finally, that guidance is being widely followed as awareness that only Love is Real most rapidly intensifies.
Love is what you are, each and every one of you, there are no exceptions. Those you might judge as unloving or worse, are in fact, just like everyone else, lost souls in the nightmare that they helped to build. Like you they will awaken, although possibly not in the same moment as the collective majority, and they will be honored, as are you, for the suffering that they have undergone as they searched for the way Home.
Many of you have experienced the thought or the dogma of the necessity of being saved. However, all are already saved. To be saved is to awaken, and that has in truth already happened, it is just that the vast majority have not yet chosen to accept this divine truth, and so remain with their eyes closed.
Your collective awakening is, therefore, a collective opening of your eyes to the Love that you are, to the full awareness of the Love that you are, to the full awareness of your inseparability from the Oneness that is Mother/Father/God. That opening of your eyes – obviously this is a metaphor for something far more wondrous – is the moment when you reach the end of your earthly path and are most enthusiastically and most wholeheartedly welcomed Home. The celebrations that have been planned for this ineffable moment will astound you. Many of you have, during your lives on Earth, been welcomed home from overseas, from college, from hospital, or from long and painful separations, and have experienced wonder at the explosion of love you felt embracing you mightily and so extremely warmly from those loved ones welcoming you. Your joy and happiness on those occasions was probably quite overwhelming.
WELL, you are to be welcomed HOME to REALITY! Home from a long and painful journey that has seemed endless for most of you, and you can have absolutely no idea at all of how amazing and wondrous that welcome will be. Prepare yourselves for joy that is beyond miraculous. And yet you cannot. It is impossible to prepare yourselves for the wonder of which all of you are essential parts, the Wonder of Oneness.
Your loving brother, Jesus.
' Within '...
As fragrance abides in the flower
As reflection is within the mirror,
So does your Lord abide within you,
Why search for him without?
......................Guru Nanak
' Success in Life '...
To be successful in life what you need is education, not literacy and degrees.
.....................Munshi Premchand
' The Highest Education '...
The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
.........................Rabindranath Tagore
' Doubt '...
Doubt is a very important trait. Out of doubt comes thinking, decisions, choices. We learn stuff. We learn to make mistakes. Or not to.
..............Martin Landau
' Morning '...
No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.
.............................Bram Stoker
' Architecture '...
You employ stone, wood and concrete, and with these materials you build houses and palaces. That is construction. Ingenuity is at work.
But suddenly you touch my heart, you do me good, I am happy and I say: This is beautiful. That is Architecture. Art enters in.
.....................Le Corbusier
' The Job of a Citizen '...
The job of a citizen is to keep his mouth open.
.....................Gunter Grass
' Something Stronger '...
My dear, In the midst of hate, I found there was, within me, an invincible love. In the midst of tears, I found there was, within me, an invincible smile. In the midst of chaos, I found there was, within me, an invincible calm. I realized, through it all, that… In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back. Truly yours, Albert Camus
......................Albert Camus
' The Opposite of Love '...
I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn.
........................Leo Buscaglia
' True Nobility '...
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.
....................Ernest Hemingway
' A Miracle '...
I believe that reading and writing are the most nourishing forms of meditation anyone has so far found. By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This to me is a miracle.
.......................Kurt Vonnegut
' Self-Education '...
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. The only function of a school is to make self-education easier; failing that, it does nothing.
...........................Isaac Asimov
' The Love of Learning '...
love of learning is the most necessary passion ... in it lies our happiness. It's a sure remedy for what ails us, an unending source of pleasure.
.....................Emilie du Chatelet
' World Suffering '...
You add to the suffering in the world when you take offense, just as much as you do when you give offense.
.......................Ken Keyes Jr.
' Learning to Die '...
Learning to live ought to mean learning to die - to acknowledge, to accept, an absolute mortality - without positive outcome,or resurrection, or redemption, for oneself or for anyone else. That has been the old philosophical injunction since Plato: to be a philosopher is to learn how to die.
.............................Jacques Derrida
' Time and Space '...
Love is the time and space where "I" give myself the right to be extraordinary.
.................................Julia Kristeva
' The General Population '...
The general population doesn't know what's happening, and it doesn't even know that it doesn't know.
.......................Noam Chomsky
' Illegal Mandates '...
A constitution defines and limits the powers of the government it creates. It therefore follows, as a natural and also a logical result, that the governmental exercise of any power not authorized by the constitution is an assumed power, and therefore illegal.
.....................Thomas Paine
' Ego.. the False Center '...
The first thing to be understood is what ego is. A child is born. A child is born without any knowledge, any consciousness of his own self. And when a child is born the first thing he becomes aware of is not himself; the first thing he becomes aware of is the other. It is natural, because the eyes open outwards, the hands touch others, the ears listen to others, the tongue tastes food and the nose smells the outside. All these senses open outwards.
That is what birth means. Birth means coming into this world, the world of the outside. So when a child is born, he is born into this world. He opens his eyes, sees others. 'Other' means the thou. He becomes aware of the mother first. Then, by and by, he becomes aware of his own body. That too is the other, that too belongs to the world. He is hungry and he feels the body; his need is satisfied, he forgets the body.
This is how a child grows. First he becomes aware of you, thou, other, and then by and by, in contrast to you, thou, he becomes aware of himself.
This awareness is a reflected awareness. He is not aware of who he is. He is simply aware of the mother and what she thinks about him. If she smiles, if she appreciates the child, if she says, "You are beautiful," if she hugs and kisses him, the child feels good about himself. Now an ego is born.
Through appreciation, love, care, he feels he is good, he feels he is valuable, he feels he has some significance.
A center is born.
But this center is a reflected center. It is not his real being. He does not know who he is; he simply knows what others think about him. And this is the ego: the reflection, what others think. If nobody thinks that he is of any use, nobody appreciates him, nobody smiles, then too an ego is born: an ill ego; sad, rejected, like a wound; feeling inferior, worthless. This too is the ego. This too is a reflection.
First the mother - and mother means the world in the beginning. Then others will join the mother, and the world goes on growing. And the more the world grows, the more complex the ego becomes, because many others' opinions are reflected.
The ego is an accumulated phenomenon, a by-product of living with others. If a child lives totally alone, he will never come to grow an ego. But that is not going to help. He will remain like an animal. That doesn't mean that he will come to know the real self, no.
The real can be known only through the false, so the ego is a must. One has to pass through it. It is a discipline. The real can be known only through the illusion. You cannot know the truth directly. First you have to know that which is not true. First you have to encounter the untrue. Through that encounter you become capable of knowing the truth. If you know the false as the false, truth will dawn upon you.
Ego is a need; it is a social need, it is a social by-product. The society means all that is around you - not you, but all that is around you. All, minus you, is the society. And everybody reflects. You will go to school and the teacher will reflect who you are. You will be in friendship with other children and they will reflect who you are. By and by, everybody is adding to your ego, and everybody is trying to modify it in such a way that you don't become a problem to the society.
They are not concerned with you.
They are concerned with the society.
Society is concerned with itself, and that's how it should be.
They are not concerned that you should become a self-knower. They are concerned that you should become an efficient part in the mechanism of the society. You should fit into the pattern. So they are trying to give you an ego that fits with the society. They teach you morality. Morality means giving you an ego which will fit with the society. If you are immoral, you will always be a misfit somewhere or other. That's why we put criminals in the prisons - not that they have done something wrong, not that by putting them in the prisons we are going to improve them, no. They simply don't fit. They are troublemakers. They have certain types of egos of which the society doesn't approve. If the society approves, everything is good.
One man kills somebody - he is a murderer.
And the same man in wartime kills thousands - he becomes a great hero. The society is not bothered by a murder, but the murder should be commited for the society - then it is okay. The society doesn't bother about morality.
Morality means only that you should fit with the society.
If the society is at war, then the morality changes.
If the society is at peace, then there is a different morality.
Morality is a social politics. It is diplomacy. And each child has to be brought up in such a way that he fits into the society, that's all. Because society is interested in efficient members. Society is not interested that you should attain to self-knowledge.
The society creates an ego because the ego can be controlled and manipulated. The self can never be controlled or manipulated. Nobody has ever heard of the society controlling a self - not possible.
And the child needs a center; the child is completely unaware of his own center. The society gives him a center and the child is by and by convinced that this is his center, the ego that society gives.
A child comes back to his home - if he has come first in his class, the whole family is happy. You hug and kiss him, and you take the child on your shoulders and dance and you say, "What a beautiful child! You are a pride to us." You are giving him an ego, a subtle ego. And if the child comes home dejected, unsuccessful, a failure - he couldn't pass, or he has just been on the back bench - then nobody appreciates him and the child feels rejected. He will try harder next time, because the center feels shaken.
Ego is always shaken, always in search of food, that somebody should appreciate it. That's why you continuously ask for attention.
You get the idea of who you are from others.
It is not a direct experience.
It is from others that you get the idea of who you are. They shape your center. This center is false, because you carry your real center. That is nobody's business. Nobody shapes it.
You come with it.
You are born with it.
So you have two centers. One center you come with, which is given by existence itself. That is the self. And the other center, which is created by the society, is the ego. It is a false thing - and it is a very great trick. Through the ego the society is controlling you. You have to behave in a certain way, because only then does the society appreciate you. You have to walk in a certain way; you have to laugh in a certain way; you have to follow certain manners, a morality, a code. Only then will the society appreciate you, and if it doesn't, you ego will be shaken. And when the ego is shaken, you don't know where you are, who you are.
The others have given you the idea.
That idea is the ego.
Try to understand it as deeply as possible, because this has to be thrown. And unless you throw it you will never be able to attain to the self. Because you are addicted to the center, you cannot move, and you cannot look at the self.
And remember, there is going to be an interim period, an interval, when the ego will be shattered, when you will not know who you are, when you will not know where you are going, when all boundaries will melt.
You will simply be confused, a chaos.
Because of this chaos, you are afraid to lose the ego. But it has to be so. One has to pass through the chaos before one attains to the real center.
And if you are daring, the period will be small.
If you are afraid, and you again fall back to the ego, and you again start arranging it, then it can be very, very long; many lives can be wasted.
I have heard: One small child was visiting his grandparents. He was just four years old. In the night when the grandmother was putting him to sleep, he suddenly started crying and weeping and said, "I want to go home. I am afraid of darkness." But the grandmother said, "I know well that at home also you sleep in the dark; I have never seen a light on. So why are you afraid here?" The boy said, "Yes, that's right - but that is MY darkness." This darkness is completely unknown.
Even with darkness you feel, "This is MINE."
Outside - an unknown darkness.
With the ego you feel, "This is MY darkness."
It may be troublesome, maybe it creates many miseries, but still mine. Something to hold to, something to cling to, something underneath the feet; you are not in a vacuum, not in an emptiness. You may be miserable, but at least you ARE. Even being miserable gives you a feeling of 'I am'. Moving from it, fear takes over; you start feeling afraid of the unknown darkness and chaos - because society has managed to clear a small part of your being.
It is just like going to a forest. You make a little clearing, you clear a little ground; you make fencing, you make a small hut; you make a small garden, a lawn, and you are okay. Beyond your fence - the forest, the wild. Here everything is okay; you have planned everything. This is how it has happened.
Society has made a little clearing in your consciousness. It has cleaned just a little part completely, fenced it. Everything is okay there. That's what all your universities are doing. The whole culture and conditioning is just to clear a part so that you can feel at home there.
And then you become afraid.
Beyond the fence there is danger.
Beyond the fence you are, as within the fence you are - and your conscious mind is just one part, one-tenth of your whole being. Nine-tenths is waiting in the darkness. And in that nine-tenths, somewhere your real center is hidden.
One has to be daring, courageous.
One has to take a step into the unknown.
For a while all boundaries will be lost.
For a while you will feel dizzy.
For a while, you will feel very afraid and shaken, as if an earthquake has happened. But if you are courageous and you don't go backwards, if you don't fall back to the ego and you go on and on, there is a hidden center within you that you have been carrying for many lives.
That is your soul, the self.
Once you come near it, everything changes, everything settles again. But now this settling is not done by the society. Now everything becomes a cosmos, not a chaos; a new order arises.
But this is no longer the order of the society - it is the very order of existence itself.
It is what Buddha calls Dhamma, Lao Tzu calls Tao, Heraclitus calls Logos. It is not man-made. It is the VERY order of existence itself. Then everything is suddenly beautiful again, and for the first time really beautiful, because man-made things cannot be beautiful. At the most you can hide the ugliness of them, that's all. You can decorate them, but they can never be beautiful.
The difference is just like the difference between a real flower and a plastic or paper flower. The ego is a plastic flower - dead. It just looks like a flower, it is not a flower. You cannot really call it a flower. Even linguistically to call it a flower is wrong, because a flower is something which flowers. And this plastic thing is just a thing, not a flowering. It is dead. There is no life in it.
You have a flowering center within. That's why Hindus call it a lotus - it is a flowering. They call it the one-thousand-petaled-lotus. One thousand means infinite petals. And it goes on flowering, it never stops, it never dies.
But you are satisfied with a plastic ego.
There are some reasons why you are satisfied. With a dead thing, there are many conveniences. One is that a dead thing never dies. It cannot - it was never alive. So you can have plastic flowers, they are good in a way. They are permanent; they are not eternal, but they are permanent.
The real flower outside in the garden is eternal, but not permanent. And the eternal has its own way of being eternal. The way of the eternal is to be born again and again and to die. Through death it refreshes itself, rejuvenates itself.
To us it appears that the flower has died - it never dies.
It simply changes bodies, so it is ever fresh.
It leaves the old body, it enters a new body. It flowers somewhere else; it goes on flowering.
But we cannot see the continuity because the continuity is invisible. We see only one flower, another flower; we never see the continuity.
It is the same flower which flowered yesterday.
It is the same sun, but in a different garb.
The ego has a certain quality - it is dead. It is a plastic thing. And it is very easy to get it, because others give it. You need not seek it, there is no search involved. That's why unless you become a seeker after the unknown, you have not yet become an individual. You are just a part of the crowd. You are just a mob.
When you don't have a real center, how can you be an individual?
The ego is not individual. Ego is a social phenomenon - it is society, its not you. But it gives you a function in the society, a hierarchy in the society. And if you remain satisfied with it, you will miss the whole opportunity of finding the self.
And that's why you are so miserable.
With a plastic life, how can you be happy?
With a false life, how can you be ecstatic and blissful? And then this ego creates many miseries, millions of them.
You cannot see, because it is your own darkness. You are attuned to it.
Have you ever noticed that all types of miseries enter through the ego? It cannot make you blissful; it can only make you miserable.
Ego is hell.
Whenever you suffer, just try to watch and analyze, and you will find, somewhere the ego is the cause of it. And the ego goes on finding causes to suffer.
You are an egoist, as everyone is. Some are very gross, just on the surface, and they are not so difficult. Some are very subtle, deep down, and they are the real problems.
This ego comes continuously in conflict with others because every ego is so unconfident about itself. Is has to be - it is a false thing. When you don't have anything in your hand and you just think that something is there, then there will be a problem.
If somebody says, "There is nothing," immediately the fight will start, because you also feel that there is nothing. The other makes you aware of the fact.
Ego is false, it is nothing.
That you also know.
How can you miss knowing it? It is impossible! A conscious being - how can he miss knowing that this ego is just false? And then others say that there is nothing - and whenever the others say that there is nothing they hit a wound, they say a truth - and nothing hits like the truth.
You have to defend, because if you don't defend, if you don't become defensive, then where will you be?
You will be lost.
The identity will be broken.
So you have to defend and fight - that is the clash.
A man who attains to the self is never in any clash. Others may come and clash with him, but he is never in clash with anybody.
It happened that one Zen master was passing through a street. A man came running and hit him hard. The master fell down. Then he got up and started to walk in the same direction in which he was going before, not even looking back.
A disciple was with the master. He was simply shocked. He said, "Who is this man? What is this? If one lives in such a way, then anybody can come and kill you. And you have not even looked at that person, who he is, and why he did it."
The master said, "That is his problem, not mine."
You can clash with an enlightened man, but that is your problem, not his. And if you are hurt in that clash, that too is your own problem. He cannot hurt you. And it is like knocking against a wall - you will be hurt, but the wall has not hurt you.
The ego is always looking for some trouble. Why? Because if nobody pays attention to you, the ego feels hungry.
It lives on attention.
So even if somebody is fighting and angry with you, that too is good because at least the attention is paid. If somebody loves, it is okay. If somebody is not loving you, then even anger will be good. At least the attention will come to you. But if nobody is paying any attention to you, nobody thinks that you are somebody important, significant, then how will you feed your ego?
Other's attention is needed.
In millions of ways you attract the attention of others; you dress in a certain way, you try to look beautiful, you behave, you become very polite, you change. When you feel what type of situation is there, you immediately change so that people pay attention to you.
This is a deep begging.
A real beggar is one who asks for and demands attention. And a real emperor is one who lives in himself; he has a center of his own, he doesn't depend on anybody else.
Buddha sitting under his bodhi tree...if the whole world suddenly disappears, will it make any difference to Buddha? -none. It will not make any difference at all. If the whole world disappears, it will not make any difference because he has attained to the center.
But you, if the wife escapes, divorces you, goes to somebody else, you are completely shattered - because she had been paying attention to you, caring, loving, moving around you, helping you to feel that you were somebody. Your whole empire is lost, you are simply shattered. You start thinking about suicide. Why? Why, if a wife leaves you, should you commit suicide? Why, if a husband leaves you, should you commit suicide? Because you don't have any center of your own. The wife was giving you the center; the husband was giving you the center.
This is how people exist. This is how people become dependent on others. It is a deep slavery. Ego HAS to be a slave. It depends on others. And only a person who has no ego is for the first time a master; he is no longer a slave. Try to understand this.
And start looking for the ego - not in others, that is not your business, but in yourself. Whenever you feel miserable, immediately close you eyes and try to find out from where the misery is coming and you will always find it is the false center which has clashed with someone.
You expected something, and it didn't happen.
You expected something, and just the contrary happened - your ego is shaken, you are in misery. Just look, whenever you are miserable, try to find out why.
Causes are not outside you. The basic cause is within you - but you always look outside, you always ask:
Who is making me miserable?
Who is the cause of my anger?
Who is the cause of my anguish?
And if you look outside you will miss.
Just close the eyes and always look within.
The source of all misery, anger, anguish, is hidden in you, your ego.
And if you find the source, it will be easy to move beyond it. If you can see that it is your own ego that gives you trouble, you will prefer to drop it - because nobody can carry the source of misery if he understands it.
And remember, there is no need to drop the ego.
You cannot drop it.
If you try to drop it, you will attain to a certain subtle ego again which says, "I have become humble."
Don't try to be humble. That's again ego in hiding - but it's not dead.
Don't try to be humble.
Nobody can try humility, and nobody can create humility through any effort of his own - no. When the ego is no more, a humbleness comes to you. It is not a creation. It is a shadow of the real center.
And a really humble man is neither humble nor egoistic.
He is simply simple.
He's not even aware that he is humble.
If you are aware that you are humble, the ego is there.
Look at humble persons.... There are millions who think that they are very humble. They bow down very low, but watch them - they are the subtlest egoists. Now humility is their source of food. They say, "I am humble," and then they look at you and they wait for you to appreciate them.
"You are really humble," they would like you to say. "In fact, you are the most humble man in the world; nobody is as humble as you are." Then see the smile that comes on their faces.
What is ego? Ego is a hierarchy that says, "No one is like me." It can feed on humbleness - "Nobody is like me, I am the most humble man."
It happened once:
A fakir, a beggar, was praying in a mosque, just early in the morning when it was still dark. It was a certain religious day for Mohammedians, and he was praying, and he was saying, "I am nobody. I am the poorest of the poor, the greatest sinner of sinners."
Suddenly there was one more person who was praying. He was the emperor of that country, and he was not aware that there was somebody else there who was praying - it was dark, and the emperor was also saying:
"I am nobody. I am nothing. I am just empty, a beggar at our door." When he heard that somebody else was saying the same thing, he said, "Stop! Who is trying to overtake me? Who are you? How dare you say before the emperor that you are nobody when he is saying that he is nobody?"
This is how the ego goes. It is so subtle. Its ways are so subtle and cunning; you have to be very, very alert, only then will you see it. Don't try to be humble. Just try to see that all misery, all anguish comes through it.
Just watch! No need to drop it.
You cannot drop it. Who will drop it? Then the DROPPER will become the ego. It always comes back.
Whatsoever you do, stand out of it, and look and watch.
Whatsoever you do - humbleness, humility, simplicity - nothing will help. Only one thing is possible, and that is just to watch and see that it is the source of all misery. Don't say it. Don't repeat it - WATCH. Because if I say it is the source of all misery and you repeat it, then it is useless. YOU have to come to that understanding. Whenever you are miserable, just close the eyes and don't try to find some cause outside. Try to see from where this misery is coming.
It is your own ego.
If you continuously feel and understand, and the understanding that the ego is the cause becomes so deep-rooted, one day you will suddenly see that it has disappeared. Nobody drops it - nobody can drop it. You simply see; it has simply disappeared, because the very understanding that ego causes all misery becomes the dropping. THE VERY UNDERSTANDING IS THE DISAPPEARANCE OF THE EGO.
And you are so clever in seeing the ego in others. Anybody can see someone else's ego. When it comes to your own, then the problem arises - because you don't know the territory, you have never traveled on it.
The whole path towards the divine, the ultimate, has to pass through this territory of the ego. The false has to be understood as false. The source of misery has to be understood as the source of misery - then it simply drops.
When you know it is poison, it drops. When you know it is fire, it drops. When you know this is the hell, it drops.
And then you never say, "I have dropped the ego." Then you simply laugh at the whole thing, the joke that you were the creator of all misery.
I was just looking at a few cartoons of Charlie Brown. In one cartoon he is playing with blocks, making a house out of children's blocks. He is sitting in the middle of the blocks building the walls. Then a moment comes when he is enclosed; all around he has made a wall. Then he cries, "Help, help!"
He has done the whole thing! Now he is enclosed, imprisoned. This is childish, but this is all that you have done also. You have made a house all around yourself, and now you are crying, "Help, help!" And the misery becomes a millionfold - because there are helpers who are also in the same boat.
It happened that one very beautiful woman went to see her psychiatrist for the first time. The psychiatrist said, "Come closer please." When she came closer, he simply jumped and hugged and kissed the woman. She was shocked. Then he said, "Now sit down. This takes care of my problem, now what is your problem?"
The problem becomes multifold, because there are helpers who are in the same boat. And they would like to help, because when you help somebody the ego feels very good, very, very good - because you are a great helper, a great guru, a master; you are helping so many people. The greater the crowd of your followers, the better you feel.
But you are in the same boat - you cannot help.
Rather, you will harm.
People who still have their own problems cannot be of much help. Only someone who has no problems of his own can help you. Only then is there the clarity to see, to see through you. A mind that has no problems of its own can see you, you become transparent.
A mind that has no problems of its own can see through itself; that's why it becomes capable of seeing through others.
In the West, there are many schools of psychoanalysis, many schools, and no help is reaching people, but rather, harm. Because the people who are helping others, or trying to help, or posing as helpers, are in the same boat.
...It is difficult to see one's own ego.
It is very easy to see other's egos. But that is not the point, you cannot help them.
Try to see your own ego.
Just watch it.
Don't be in a hurry to drop it, just watch it. The more you watch, the more capable you will become. Suddenly one day, you simply see that it has dropped. And when it drops by itself, only then does it drop. There is no other way. Prematurely you cannot drop it.
It drops just like a dead leaf.
The tree is not doing anything - just a breeze, a situation, and the dead leaf simply drops. The tree is not even aware that the dead leaf has dropped. It makes no noise, it makes no claim - nothing.
The dead leaf simply drops and shatters on the ground, just like that.
When you are mature through understanding, awareness, and you have felt totally that ego is the cause of all your misery, simply one day you see the dead leaf dropping.
It settles into the ground, dies of its own accord. You have not done anything so you cannot claim that you have dropped it. You see that it has simply disappeared, and then the real center arises.
And that real center is the soul, the self, the god, the truth, or whatsoever you want to call it.
It is nameless, so all names are good.
You can give it any name of your own liking.
....................................From Beyond the Frontier of the Mind by Osho
' Psychic Hypnosis '...
psychic hypnosis...
"See once and for all
that human affairs can improve
only when minds awaken
from psychic hypnosis."
.................. Vernon Howard
' We Are Asleep '...
We Are Asleep!...
Impossible to believe as we stare at this screen before us..
We awoke this morning from the nothingness and into the illusion of materiality..
All of this time, we firmly believe that we are awake in reality..
We pass through this day wondering why we are here..
Perhaps, instead of crying at our unknowing,
We should laugh at our ignorance..
As all of the Mystic Masters have told you,
" The answer is within"..
Within what?..
The Heart and Mind..
This is why you are here..
The mind will lead you to the 'Door'
The heart will open the 'Door'..
As the Nazarene said;
" Knock and the Door shall be opened"..
The mind is the ego that desires to exist but still seeks freedom..
The Heart is Divine Consciousness that offers freedom to the mind..
The mind is troubled by this decision between annihilation of it's existence and
the freedom that is promised by this sacrifice of existence..
Reality is beyond the mind (ego),
To view Reality, the mind (ego) must dissolve into nothingness...
Courage is the name given to those that fear and yet still proceed..
Are you Courageous?..
............ thomas
' Enlightenment '...
Enlightenment...
"All paths are mine,
and all lead eventually to me.
But the shortest way to me,
is the no-path of self-annihilative love."
....................................
Meher Baba
in Bhau Kalchuri
_Lord Meher: The Biography of Avatar of the Age Meher Baba_
Asheville, NC: MANifestation, v. 18, p. 6235
' The Plot '...
I don't think plot as a plot means much today. I'd say that everybody has seen every plot twenty times. What they haven't seen is characters and their relation to one another. I don't worry much about plot anymore.
...........................Howard Hawks
' Acting '...
Acting is half shame, half glory. Shame at exhibiting yourself, glory when you can forget yourself.
....................John Gielgud
' In Love '...
To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness.
...................Robert Morley
' The Voice of Hope '...
I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to liberation.
......................Theodore Bikel
' A Holy Person '...
What is a holy person? The one who is aware of others' suffering.
....................Kabir
' The Ego '...
The ego is like the root of a banyan tree, you think you have removed it all then one fine morning you see a sprout flourishing again.
....................Ramakrishna
' War '...
I was there. I saw your sons and your husbands, your brothers and your sweethearts. I saw how they worked, played, fought, and lived. I saw some of them die. I saw more courage, more good humor in the face of discomfort, more love in an era of hate and more devotion to duty than could exist under tyranny.
...........................Bob Hope
' Habits '...
Stop the habit of wishful thinking and start the habit of thoughtful wishes.
...................Mary Martin
' The Power of Speech '...
If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.
.........................Haim Ginott
' Every Day '...
Every day is your day if you claim it. If you wait for somebody else to make it for you, you're going to be disappointed.
........................Iyanla Vanzant
' The Super Brain '...
Each of us plays four roles in relation to the brain. We lead, we inspire, we invent, and we use it. Most people do not actively use their brains. They passively let their feelings and thoughts control their lives. They don't invent new ways to use their brains, either, settling instead for the same routine and repetitive thoughts every day. But if you master all four roles, you create your super brain. When you are the active observer of your feelings and thoughts, you become the user of your brain. Your super brain then serves you, not vice versa.
.................................Deepak Chopra
' Searching '...
We search for everything we believe we don't have, not knowing that everything we are looking for is already inside us. We are born with it.
........................Miguel Angel Ruiz
' Making Friends '...
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
..............................Dale Carnegie
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