A Zen story told by Osho: “Life moves so fast; it is dynamic, not static. It is not a stagnant pool; it is the Ganges, it is flowing. It is never the same for two consecutive moments. Therefore, one thing may be right this moment and may be wrong the next moment. What to do […]
“There are millions of ways to express your happiness, but there is only one way to really be happy, and that is to love. There is no other way. You cannot be happy if you don’t love yourself. That is a fact. If you don’t love yourself, you don’t have any opportunity to be happy. […]
“A warrior of light often feels he is living two lives at once. In one, he is obliged to do all that he does not want to do, and to fight for ideas in which he does not believe. But there is another life, and he discovers it in his dreams, in his books, and […]
“A warrior of light sometimes—quite unintentionally—takes a false step and finds himself plunging into the abyss. Ghosts terrify him, and solitude torments him. Having always sought the Good Fight, he never imagined that this would happen to him, but it does. Shrouded in darkness, he communicates with his master. ‘Master, I have fallen into the […]
“If you really want to know your mind, the body will always give you a truthful reflection, so look at the emotion, or rather feel it in your body. If there is a clear conflict between them, the thought will be the lie, the emotion will be the truth. Not the ultimate truth of who […]
“For a warrior, there is no such thing as an impossible love. He is not intimidated by silence, by indifference, or by rejection. He knows that behind the mask of ice that people wear, there is a heart of fire. This is why the warrior takes more risks than others. He unceasingly seeks the love […]
“A warrior of light often loses heart. He believes that nothing can stir in him the emotion he so desired. He is forced to spend many afternoons and nights feeling that he is one of the vanquished, and nothing seems able to restore his enthusiasm. His friends say: ‘Perhaps his fight is over.’ The warrior […]
“There is no need to investigate the unconscious past within yourself, except when it manifests in the present moment as a thought, an emotion, a desire, a reaction, or an external event that happens to you. Whatever you need to know about your unconscious past, the challenges of the present will bring it to light. […]
“As long as the egoic mind is running your life, you cannot truly be at ease; you cannot be at peace or fulfilled except for brief intervals when you obtained what you wanted, when a desire has just been fulfilled. Since the ego is a derived sense of self, it needs to identify with external […]
“No one needs your help. I know, I know… this is one of the difficult things. But it’s true. However, this doesn’t mean that no one wants your help, or that no one can use your help. It simply means that the thought that another Aspect of the Divine is helpless without you is not […]
“Negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present. Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry—all forms of fear—are caused by too much future and not enough presence. Guilt, regret, resentment, grievances, sadness, bitterness, and all forms of non-forgiveness are caused by too much past and not enough presence.” — Eckhart Tolle
“If it is the quality of your consciousness at this moment that determines the future, then what is it that determines the quality of your consciousness? Your degree of presence. So the only place where true change can occur and where the past can be dissolved is the Now.” Eckhart Tolle, “The Power of Now”
