Osho: “In my view, God is here-and-now. Everything you see is God. God is not something beyond; God is something within. Never before in the history of humanity has man been as frightened as he is now… If there is no God, then existence becomes hostile. Not that it has actually become hostile, but it […]
“Our susceptibility to the myth of ‘Mr. Right’ comes from our glorification of romantic love. The ego uses romantic love for its ‘special purposes,’ causing us to jeopardize relationships by overvaluing their romantic content. The difference between friendship and infatuation can be illustrated with the image of a long-stemmed rose. The stem is the friendship, […]
“There are too many different kinds of psychologies. An American university publishes a volume every year on the psychologies of 1934, 1935, and so on. There is a complete chaos in psychology, and therefore do not take psychological theories so terribly seriously. Psychology is not a religious faith; it is only a point of view, […]
“Thoughts are like information data programmed into a computer, which are then registered on the screen of your life. If you don’t like what you see on the screen, there’s no point in trying to erase it. Thought is the cause; experience is the effect. If you don’t like the effects in your life, you […]
“Religion is individual… Moreover, religion has no name. When someone becomes religious, from that moment on, they are no longer a Hindu, a Muslim, or a Christian. They are simply religious. It is an understanding: it is a different kind of knowledge, a different kind of seeing. When you see differently, you see a different […]
“None of us is objectively attractive or unattractive. There is no such thing. I have been with men who did not think I was good enough at all. I have also been with men who were smart enough to say, ‘You look beautiful tonight’ often enough to boost my self-esteem and help me manifest myself […]
I know you know this fairy tale. Now I just want to remind you of it. It is one of my absolute favorites. And fairy tales are not just stories we use to lull our children to sleep at night. They are stories about our inner life, symbols of the processes taking place in the […]
One of the challenges Jung had to deal with was explaining how he differed from Freud’s psychoanalysis. In his lectures, delivered to about two hundred physicians at the Tavistock Clinic in London in 1935 and subsequently published in his book Analytical Psychology: Its Theory and Practice, he provides an answer to this very question. “I […]
“Don’t aim at success – the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one’s dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the […]
From the book by M. Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled “Whenever we take a step to extend our boundaries, we do so by either overcoming the inertia of laziness or confronting the fear of resistance. The first we call work; the second we call courage. Love, then, is always either work or courage directed […]
“The second most common misconception about love is that dependency is love. This is most frequently expressed by people who say, ‘I cannot live without my husband (wife, lover).’ When you require another individual for your survival, you are a parasite upon that individual. There is no choice in the relationship, no freedom. It is […]
“People ask, ‘Why can’t I find a deep, loving relationship?’ The question is understandable, because people are lonely… When we are alone, the ego makes it seem as though all pain would disappear if only we had a boyfriend or girlfriend. But if a relationship takes hold, it will bring as much of our existential […]
