“The warrior of Light is never in a hurry. Time works in his favour; he learns to master his impatience and avoids acting without thinking. By walking slowly, he becomes aware of the firmness of his step. He knows that he is taking part in a decisive moment in the history of humanity and that […]
According to therapist Brad Blanton, author of the book Radical Honesty, the main cause of stress is not something else, but living a lie. According to him, “We all lie like the world. It saps our life force. It’s the root cause of the stress people experience. In short: lying sees us through the bill.”
According to Osho: “Confusion is a great opportunity. The problem with people who are not confused is a big one—they think they know, but they actually do not know. People who believe they have clarity are in real trouble; their clarity is very superficial. In reality, they do not know what clarity means; what they […]
“Every turn of fate has its interpretation, but it also has its beauty… Even before the story of a life takes shape, life manifests itself as an image. These images wish, first and foremost, to be seen. Even if each of them is indeed laden with meaning and open to analytical dissection, should we rush […]
A friend once shared with me how he dealt with his constant irritability and outbursts over “drivers who drive like idiots.” The thought occurred to him that if he is a better driver than they are—because he can drive in a way they cannot—then getting angry at the fact that they can’t is simply foolish. […]
Below is an excerpt from Osho’s book The Art of Dying, which is so poetic and so precise that I translated it with great pleasure. The longer I live, the more I discover the truth and the beauty of what he says. Based on everything I know from my personal experience and from spiritual teachings […]
“Be quiet, you old witch! You have no right to ask questions of a hero. Bring something to eat and drink, or I’ll cut off your ears and chop off your head, and sand will pour out of your backside!” This is what Ivan—the hero of the Russian fairy tale “The Tsar Maiden”—says to Baba […]
This is a story from the book The Five Stages of the Soul by Harry Moody and David Carroll, told in the context of sin, guilt, and redemption. According to a Japanese legend, in the city of Wakamatsu there once lived a young samurai named Zenkai, who spent his days gambling and indulging in pleasure. […]
“The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be constantly afraid of making a mistake.” Most of us are familiar with the blocking role of the fear of making mistakes. While for some people this fear poses only a minor challenge, for others it can become paralyzing. So-called perfectionists may end up wasting […]
**“The insight we gain by turning toward ourselves is very bitter, and that is why very few people do it; it is pikros—bitter—because it corrodes and is unacceptable to the illusions of consciousness. We speak of ‘bitter knowledge,’ ‘bitter realization,’ and ‘bitter truth,’ because self-knowledge is a bitter initial experience… …the truth given by the […]
When the soul (the individuation impulse) awakens, we are called to learn a new way of making decisions. Previously, our choices were guided by conventional notions of right and wrong. We knew what was good and what was evil, and we acted accordingly. Yet the awakening of the soul comes with the dissolution of everything […]
“When you decide to do something, commit to it fully while doing it. What so often happens is that people choose to do something and then don’t commit to it fully – they don’t say their total yes to it while they’re doing it. Instead, they might complain about doing it, daydream about doing something […]
