**Fear comes into being when I want to fit into a certain pattern.To live without fear means to live outside patterns.The desire to live in a certain way is a source of fear. The difficulties I experience arise from my desire to live within fixed frameworks.** Paraphrased from Jiddu Krishnamurti
From Noel Button, The Path of Extraordinary Success and Self-Belief: “The only thing that can be said with certainty about life is that every time we set out to pursue a goal or a dream, there will be people who will tell us that it is impossible. In order to succeed in any direction, we […]
“A man never truly fails except when he stops trying.”— Elbert Hubbard
“Your problem is not love.Your problem is that you are not able to accept yourself, to stand on your own feet, to treat yourself with respect, to do something in such a way that you can feel you have value.Your value must arise from within you; it must not be given to you by someone […]
Neale Donald Walsch: “Words are the most unreliable carriers of truth.” If this thought has come to you today, the message is clear: it is good to go beyond what your ears hear. And to ask yourself what stands behind the spoken words—your own or those of others. You will know that you have reached […]
Neale Donald Walsch: “Feeling is the language of the soul. If you want to understand your truth about something, look at what you feel about it. Sometimes feelings are difficult to uncover and often even more difficult to accept. But in your deepest feelings lies your highest truth. The trick is to reach those feelings.” […]
The text below is from Osho’s Book of Secrets. He presents a very simple yet effective way of working with the emotions that arise in our relationships with other people, transforming them into awareness and inner strength. The technique (meditation) is as follows: “When a mood for or against someone arises, do not direct it […]
M. Scott Peck: “The tendency to avoid problems, as well as the emotional suffering with which they are charged, is the basis of all mental illness. Since this is characteristic of most of us, we are all mentally ill to a greater or lesser degree, and some go too far in their effort to escape […]
Osho: “Ignorance is always bold; knowledge hesitates.”
“Inner Nature, when relied on, cannot be fooled. But many people do not look at it or listen to it, and consequently do not understand themselves very much. Having little understanding of themselves, they have little respect for themselves, and are therefore easily influenced by others… One of the most convenient things about this Sensitivity […]
Osho: “The language of logic is aggressive, argumentative, violent, egocentric. The language of love is concerned with the other—how to help the other grow and transform. For the first, what is said is important; for the second, how it is said matters. The first is debate; the second is communion.” Translation from Bulgarian
A very alchemical tale with a commentary from Benjamin Hoff’s The Tao of Pooh “In the state of Chu, a thief became a soldier under General Wu Tzu-fa, a man renowned for his remarkable ability to make use of other people’s capacities. After some time, Chu was attacked by the army of Qi. In response, […]
