POWER OF PRAYER
Friday, September 25th, 2009KALIDASA –“0 Megh, listen to me for directions To my beloved: Take what you need Through every pore; if your tired feet Must rest, on mountaintops repose With crystal waters to quench your thirst — Then do carry on your task.”
KALIDASA –“A rainbow, stamping his jewel colours on your Grey, termite mound-like body, Decorates you like Vishnu Radiant in peacock plumage, Shining in elegance.”
KALIDASA –“At this time, people enjoy abiding in the medial places of their residences, whose ventilators are blockaded for the passage of chilly air, and at fireplaces, in sunrays, with heavy clothing, and along with mature women of age, for they too will be passionately steamy.. Presently not the sandal-paste, which ; I will be cool like the moonbeam, nor the building tops that were once rendered pleasant with immaculate moonshine, nor the breezes, that are chilled by dense sleet… none is delightful for the people… The nights are unenjoyable, for they are chilled with the huddles of snow, and further chilled by moonbeams. Besides, these nights are ornamented with clusters of white stars… In this season, abundant are the new sugar-candies and their modified sweetmeats, new rice is relishable, juice of new sugarcane is delightful, intensified will be the disport of lovemaking, for the self-conceit of Love-god occasions anew, but this season alone will be the cause for scorching the hearts of those that are devoid of their loved ones, and thus let this winter season be always there for your propitious ness…”
KALIDASA –“Is the mountain peak still all there? The Siddhi girls gazed up to ask in wonder As a sharp gale blew over their valley, Not knowing him as your helmsman. Steer clear Of wild elephants stomping-down wet Kunja lands— Lift off and be northbound.”
KALIDASA –“Listen to the Exhortation of the Dawn! Look to this Day! / For it is Life, the very Life of Life./ In its brief course lie all the/ Verities and Realities of your Existence. The Bliss of Growth,/ The Glory of Action,/ The splendour of Beauty; For Yesterday is but a Dream,/ And Tomorrow is only a Vision;/ But Today well lived makes/ Every Yesterday a Dream of Happiness,/ And every Tomorrow a Vision of Hope. Look well therefore to this Day! / Such is the Salutation of the Dawn!” KARLKAPP –“If there had been a computer in 1872 it would have predicted that by now there would be so many horse- drawn vehicles that the entire surface of the earth would be 10 feet deep in horse manure.”
KALIDASA –“Love, the cause of my torment, now brings me joy, / Like a day of low dark clouds showers away the heat.”
KALIDASA –“of Beauty; For Yesterday is but a Dream, And Tomorrow is only a Vision; But Today well-lived makes Every Yesterday a Dream of Happiness, And every Tomorrow a Vision of Hope. Look well therefore to this Day! Such is the Salutation of the Dawn!”
KALIDASA –“Stacks of ripe rice and sugarcane cover the earth the air rings with the hidden calls of curlews; love grows exuberant: Dear to lovely women, winter is now here; hear now, my love. People close their windows tight, light fires, keep warm in the sun and wear heavy garments… Neither liquid sandal chilled by moonbeams nor breezes cool with falling dew, nor terraces of mansions bright with the autumnal moon, delight the mind at this time of the year. Cold, cold, with heavy dews falling thick, and colder yet with the moonbeams’ icy glitter, lit with ethereal beauty by wan stars, these nights give no comfort or joy to people. Wives eager for love, their lotus-faces fragrant with flower-wine, enter their chambers aromatic with the incense of black aloes, taking betel-rolls and garlands and hot perfumes… This wintry season that abounds with sweet rice, and sugarcane, and mounds of dark palm-sugar dainties: when Love waxes proud and love’s sport is at fever-pitch; when the anguish is intense of parted lover? May this season be to you ever auspicious.”
KALIDASA –“The bloom of tender flowers is past/ And lilies droop forlorn,/ For ; winter-time is come at last,/ Rich with its ripened corn;/ Yet for the wealth of blossoms lost/ Some hardier flowers appear/ That bid defiance to the frost/ Of sterner days, my dear.”
KALIDASA –“The fields, 0 Megh, depend on your fruitful rains. Thus, the hard-working village women Glance at you with soft, admiring eyes. Climbing high above the sweet-smelling, Freshly-tilled plain, you again descend To rest — then once again head north…”
KALIDASA –“The forest seems to show its glee In flowering nipa plants; In waving twigs of many a tree Wind-swept, it seems to dance; Its ketak-blossom’s opening sheath Is like a smile put on To greet the rain’s reviving breath, Now pain and heat are gone.”
KALIDASA –“The rain advances like a king in awful majesty; Hear, dearest, how his thunders ring like royal drums, and see His lightning-banners wave; a cloud For elephant he rides, And finds his welcome from the crowd Of lovers and of brides.”
KALIDASA –“The silver clouds that vie with the whiteness of white lotuses are kissing the black boulders of mountains on mountaintops, while the mountainsides are bestrewn with mountain-rapids, and widespread with debut dancing of peacocks, and all this is inducing a carnivalesque visual revelry…”
KALIDASA –“The sky on every side is shrouded by rain clouds/ Which wear the beauty of deep blue lotus petals, / And here look like heaps of made-up eye-salve, and there/ Possess the charm of breasts of women with child.”
KALIDASA –“To you, dear, may the cloudy time Bring all that you desire, Bring every pleasure, perfect, prime, To set a bride on fire; May rain whereby life wakes and shines Where there is power of life, The unchanging friend of clinging vines, Shower blessings on my wife.”
KALIDASA –“With streaming clouds trumpeting like haughty tuskers,/ with lightning banners and drum beats of thunder claps,/ in towering majesty the season of rains/ welcome to lovers, now comes like a king, my love.”
HABAKKUK –“God, the Lord, is my strength; he makes my feet like hind’s feet, he makes me tread upon high places.”
HADITH –“God is beautiful and loves beauty.”
HADITH OF ABU DAWUD –“Surely Allah will raise for this community at the beginning of every century one who shall revive for it its faith.”
HADITH OF ABU DAWUD –“Surely Allah will raise for this community at the beginning of every century one who shall revive for it its faith.”
HADITH OF BAIHAQI –“As you are so will you have rulers put over you.”
HADITH OF BUKHARI AND MUSLIM –“Abu Huraira reported God’s Messenger as saying, “The strong man is not the good wrestler; the strong man is only he who controls himself when he is angry”.”
HADITH OF BUKHARI –The best of men are those who are useful to others.”
HADITH OF MUSLIM –“By God, any official who takes anything from the public funds without justification will meet his Lord carrying it on himself on the Day of Judgment.”
HADITH OF MUSLIM –“Verily God forgives my people the evil promptings which arise within their hearts as long as they do not speak about them and did not act upon them.”
HADITH OF TIRMIDHI –“For everything there is an appropriate way of polishing; the heart’s polishing is the remembrance of God.”
HAFIZ –“Even after all this time The sun never says to the earth, “You owe Me” Look what happens with A love like that, It lights the Whole Sky.”
HAFIZ –“One day the sun admitted, I am just a shadow. I wish I could show you ; The Infinite Incandescence (Tej) That has cast my brilliant image! I wish I could show you, When you are lonely I or in darkness, The astonishing Light Of your own Being!”
HAFIZ –“We are the guardians/ Of His Beauty/ We are the protectors/ Of the Sun./There is only one reason/ We have followed God into this world:/ To encourage laughter, freedom, dance/ And love./ Let a noble cry inside of you speak to me/ Saying, “Hafiz,/ Don’t just sit there on the moon tonight/ Doing nothing —/ Help unfurl my heart into the Friend’s Mind,/Help, Old Man, to heal my wounded wings!”/We are the companions of His Beauty/We are the guardians/Of Truth./ Every man, plant and creature in Existence,/ Every woman, child, vein and note/ Is a servant of purr Beloved —/ A harbinger of joy,/ The harbinger of Light.”
HAFLZ –“When I became a lover I thought I had gained the Pearl of the Goal; foolish I did not know that this Pearl lies on the floor of an ocean which has innumerable waves to be encountered and great depths to be sounded.”
HAFTZ –“Even after all this time/ The sun never says to the earth,/ “You owe Me”./ Look what happens with A love like that,/It lights the Whole Sky.”
HAFTZ- “I have learned so much from God that I can no longer call myself a Christian, a Hindu, a Muslim, a Buddhist, a Jew.”
HAIDAKHAN BABAJI –“0 benevolent Lord, benevolent Lord, You who are the personification of all that is good. I bow down to you again and again. Husband of Girija daughter of the mountain, Carrying Ganga in your locks. Shiva Hara Hara, you take away all the miseries of life. I bow down to you again and again.”
HELENA BLAVATSKY -“That which is part of our souls is eternal… Those lives are countless, but the soul or spirit that animates us throughout these myriads of existences is the same. Though “the book and volume” of the physical brain may forget events within the scope of one terrestrial life, the bulk of collective recollections can never desert the divine soul within us.”
HELENA BLAVATSKY –“That which is part of our souls is eternal… Those lives are countless, but the soul or spirit that animates us throughout these myriads of existences is the same; and though “the book and volume” of the physical brain may forget events within the scope of one terrestrial life, the bulk of collective recollections can never desert the divine soul within us. Its whispers may be too soft, the sound of its words too far off the plane perceived by our physical senses; yet the shadow of events that were, just as much as the shadow of the events that are to come, is within its perceptive powers, and is ever I present before its mind’s eye.”
HIPPOCRATES –“As to diseases, make a habit of two things — to help, or at least, to do no harm… Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.”
HIPPOCRATES-“Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.”
HOLY BIBLE –“And above all, things have fervent charity among yourselves, for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.”
HOLY BIBLE –“As far man, his days are as grass, as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.”
HOLY BIBLE –“Be strong and of good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee, whithersoever thougoest.”
HOLY BIBLE –“For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.”
HOLY BIBLE –“Let no one judge you in food or in drink, or regarding a festival or a new moon or Sabbaths.”
HOLY BIBLE –“Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we shall die.”
HOLY BIBLE –“Suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope.”
HOLY BIBLE –“The joyfulness of a man prolongeth his days.”
HOLY BIBLE –“Then Jesus said unto them, yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you: For he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth.”
HOLY NIGHT –“Truly He taught us to love one another His law is love and His gospel is peace Chains shall He break for the slave is our brother And in His name all ‘: oppression shall cease Sweet hymns of joy in grateful chorus raise we, Let all within us praise His holy name.”
JESUS CHRIST –“Thou shalt love the lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is: Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.”
JEWISH PROVERB –“A mother understands what a child does not say.”
JEWISH PROVERB –“God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers.”
JEWISH PROVERB –“If you are bitter at heart, sugar in the mouth will not help you.”
JEWISH SAYING –“Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.”
MATTHEW –“And immediately Jesus stretched forth his hand, and caught him, and said unto him, 0 thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt?”
MATTHEW –“And they stripped him, and put on him a scarlet robe. And when they had plaited a crown of thorns, they put it upon his head, and a reed in his
MATTHEW –“God makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.”
MATTHEW –“If you are offering your gift at the altar, and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your gift there before the altar and go; first be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.”
MATTHEW –“Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.”
MATTHEW –“Peter came to Jesus and asked, “Lord, how many times shall I forgive my brother when he sins against me? Up to seven times?” Jesus answered, “I tell you, not seven times, but seventy-seven times”.”
MATTHEW –“You have heard that it was said to the men of old, “You shall not kill and whoever kills shall be liable to judgment”. But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother shall be liable to judgment; whoever insults his brother shall be liable to the council, and whoever says “You fool!” shall be liable to the hell of fire.”
MATTHEW –“You will know them by their fruits. Are grapes gathered fro thorns or figs from thistles? Every sound tree bears good fruit, but the bad tree bears evil fruit. A sound tree cannot bear evil fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit.”
MATTHEW –“You, therefore, must be perfect; as you’re heavenly Father is perfect.”
MOTHER TERESA –“A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love.”
MOTHER TERESA –“Convey God’s love- not a dead God but a living God.”
MOTHER TERESA –“Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.”
MOTHER TERESA –“Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush; anxious for greater developments and greater wishes and so on; so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each other; and the home begins the disruption of the peace of the world.”
MOTHER TERESA –“He who is faultless does not care for the opinion of others”
MOTHER TERESA –“Hungry not only for bread — but hungry for love. Naked not only for clothing — but naked for human dignity and respect. Homeless not only for want of a room of bricks — but homeless because of rejection.”
MOTHER TERESA –“I fear just one thing; money! Greed was what motivated Judas to sell Jesus.”
MOTHER TERESA –“I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.”
MOTHER TERESA –“If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.”
MOTHER TERESA –“If you are successful, you may win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway.”
MOTHER TERESA –“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
MOTHER TERESA –“In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love.”
MOTHER TERESA –“It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our own home. Bring love into your own home for this is where our love for each other must start.”
MOTHER TERESA –“It’s not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.”
MOTHER TERESA –“Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.”
MOTHER TERESA –“Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.”
MOTHER TERESA –“Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier; be the living expression of God’s kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, and kindness in your smile.”
MOTHER TERESA –“Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier.”
MOTHER TERESA –“Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible.”
MOTHER TERESA –“Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.”
MOTHER TERESA –“The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.”
MOTHER TERESA –“The more you have, the more you are occupied, the less you give.”
MOTHER TERESA –“The most beautiful thing is to see a person smiling and even more beautiful is knowing that you are the reason behind it. Be a reason for others to smile.”
MOTHER TERESA –“There is a light in this world, a healing spirit more powerful than any darkness we may encounter. We sometime lose sight of this force when there is suffering, and too much pain. Then suddenly the spirit will emerge through the lives of ordinary people who hear a call and answer in extraordinary ways.”
MOTHER TERESA –“There is a net of love by which you can catch souls.”
MOTHER TERESA –“There is more hunger for love in this world than for bread.”
MOTHER TERESA –“There should be less talk. A preaching point is not a meeting point.”
MOTHER TERESA –“To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it.”
MOTHER TERESA –“We can do no great things, only small things with great love.”
MOTHER TERESA –“We need lots of love to forgive, but we need much more humility to ask for forgiveness.”
MOTHER TERESA –“We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature — trees, flowers; grass-grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence… We need silence to be able to touch souls.”
MOTHER TERESA –“We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence.”
MOTHER TERESA –“What I do you cannot do but what you do, I cannot do. The needs are great, and none of us, including me, ever do great things. But we can all do small things, with great love, and together we can do something wonderful, Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.”
MOTHER TERESA –“You and I have been created for greater things. We have not been created to just pass through this life without aim. And that greater aim is to love and be loved.”
MOTHER TERESA-“Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person”
OSHO –“A creative person comes into the world, enhances the beauty of the World — a song here, a painting there. He makes the world dance better, enjoy better, love better, meditate better. When he leaves this world, he leaves a better world behind him.”
OSHO –“A man of consciousness responds, and his responses are spontaneous. He is mirror-like: he reflects whatsoever confronts him. And out of this spontaneity, out of this consciousness, a new kind of action is born. That action never creates any bondage, any karma. That action frees you.”
OSHO –“A religious person has nothing to do with organised religion, but he has something to do with the inner poetry, the poetry of life. He has something to do with the inner dance; he has a dancing energy He is in deep romance with life, he is in romantic love with life. He is immensely grateful for each moment of joy that God goes on giving. And we are not even worthy. We don’t deserve it. We have not earned it. It is a gift.”
OSHO –“Be creative. Don’t be worried about what you are doing — one has to do many things —but do everything creatively, with devotion. Then your work becomes worship. If the atom can have so much energy, what to say about man? What to say about this small flame of consciousness in man? If some day this small flame bursts forth, it is bound to become an infinite source of energy and light. That’s how it I has happened to a Buddha, or to a Jesus.”
OSHO –“Bloom in love, release the fragrance of love — that is prayer.”
OSHO –“Certainly it will be uncomfortable, inconvenient, but nothing valuable is ever gained without inconvenience.”
OSHO –“Death is a door to God those who know how to die know how to enter in to God. Clingers clinging to life never know what God is.”
OSHO –“Enlightenment is simply recognizing your being, recognizing the eternity of your being, recognizing that there has been no death before, nor is there any death to come — that death is a fiction. Seeing your being in its utter nakedness, in its absolute beauty, its grandeur, its silence, its blissfulness, its ecstasy — all that is involved in the word ‘enlightenment’.”
OSHO –“Existence wants your life to become a festival … because when you are unhappy, you also throw unhappiness all around.”
OSHO –“I am saying something about the ineffable. I am saying something about the ultimate mystery. You can understand it, yet you can never understand it totally It is elusive, it escapes. It is within reach, but it is not within grasp; You are always coming closer and closer to it, but you never arrive. And the day you arrive, then you are no more there; the distinction between the seeker and the sought disappears. Then you are it. That art thou — then you are it!”
OSHO –“I condemn the politicians in the same way I condemn organized religions. They are nothing but politics.”
OSHO –“I have seen lovers promising each other that they will love each other forever and forever. And not knowing anything about the next moment! If they are a little alert, they will say: “It feels in this moment, it is a truth of this moment…” That is why lovers always prove to be deceivers to each other. In the end they think they have been cheated. They have both promised things which they cannot deliver.”
OSHO –“I say unto you that suffering is not holding you, you are holding suffering… And when you become good at the art of letting sufferings go, then you’ll come to realize what you were dragging around with you. And for that, no one else other than you was responsible… The truth is that existence wants your life to become a festival…because when you are unhappy, you also throw unhappiness all around.”
OSHO –“I speak against politics because I don’t want you to remain ignorant of who the real criminals are in this world. You have to be aware of who the criminals are. The problem is that those criminals are thought to be great leaders, saints, mahatmas and they are tremendously respected around the world; you would never think that they could be criminals…”
OSHO –“I would like you to relate with people, to love, to move in millions of relationships — because they enrich — and yet remain capable of closing your doors and sometimes having a holiday from all relationships… so that you can relate with your own being also.”
OSHO –“If someone goes to dance on the grounds where Krishna once danced with his gopis he can hear the echoes of the maha-raas even today If someone can play a flute near the hills that in the past echoed with the music of Krishna’s flute, he can hear those hills still echoing it, everlastingly The raas symbolises the overflowing, outpouring of the primeval energy as it is divided between man and woman. And if we accept this definition, the Raas is as relevant today as it was in the times of Krishna. Then it is everlastingly relevant.”
OSHO –“In the inner world no effort is needed. Once you start slipping inwards, you suddenly see everything is happening as it should. Life is perfect. There is no way to improve upon it Then celebration starts.”
OSHO –“Just become a child, and your eyes will be able to see the point. And from that moment, growth goes on happening.”
OSHO –“Life becomes richer a love grows. And this sensitivity will create new friendships for you — friendships with trees, birds, animals, mountains, rivers, oceans, with stars.”
OSHO –“Life is not esoteric at all. It is written on each leaf of each tree, on each pebble on the seashore it is contained in each ray of the sun — whatever you come across is life in all its beauty.”
OSHO –“Love is not a talent, but everybody’s potential.”
OSHO –“Meditation is just courage to be silent and alone. Slowly, slowly, you start feeling a new quality to yourself, a new aliveness, a new beauty, a new intelligence which is not borrowed from anybody, which is growing, within you. It has roots in our existence.”
OSHO –“Meditation’s ultimate conclusion is, live the omen to its totality, intensively, joyously, because there is nothing to be feared —because even death is a fiction. Don’t separate yourself from existence, become part of it and existence will take care of you. It is already taking care of you.”
OSHO –“Once you know yourself, there is no death. Death was only in your ignorance. In your meditative consciousness, death disappears just as darkness disappears when there is light brought in.”
OSHO –“Remember one thin Meditation means awareness, Whatsoever you do with awareness is meditation. Action is not the question, but the quality that you bring to your action. Walking can be a meditation if you walk alertly. Sitting can be a meditation if you sit alertly. Listening to the birds can be a meditation if you listen with awareness. Just listening to the inner noise of you mind can be a meditation if you remain alert and watchful.”
OSHO –“Satsang is to be in the presence of a Master, in a loving communion. It is a very special word —it cannot be translated into any western language, because nothing like this has ever happened there; it is uniquely eastern. In fact, the relationship between a disciple and a Master is an eastern phenomenon, a contribution of the East to the world of consciousness. Between a Master and a disciple the question is not of knowledge but of being. Not that the Master knows more than the disciple — sometimes the disciple may know more. The Master is more than the disciple, not that he knows more. He has more being, he has more soul. It is not a question of his memory; it is a question of his existence; he has a totally different kind of existence — integrated, centred, rooted.”
OSHO –“Tensions are our guests; we have invited them. Relaxation is our nature; we don’t have to invite it. You don’t have to relax; you have just to stop inviting tensions, and relaxation will start on its own accord. In your very being, in every fiber, in every cell of your being there will be relaxation. This relaxation is the beginning of meditation.”
OSHO –“The one who cares about happiness — about his own happiness — becomes careful about everybody else’s happiness, because happiness happens only in a happy climate.”
OSHO –“The truth is that existence wants your life to become a festival… because when you are unhappy, you also throw unhappiness all around.”
OSHO –“’The word ‘guru’ is untranslatable,, Neithe:, does the word ‘teacher nor the word ‘Master’ has that beauty. In fact the phenomenon of the guru is so deeply Indian that no other language of any country is capable of translating it. It is something intrinsically Eastern. The word ‘guru’ is made of two words, ‘gu’ and ‘ru’.'Gu’ means darkness, ‘ru’ means one who dispels it. Guru literally means/the light’.”
OSHO –“There is no need for problems to be. We create problems with one hand and we try to solve the problems with the other hand — and both are our hands!”
OSHO –“Think of a life without death, and it will be unendurable pain, an unendurable existence. It will be impossible to live without death. Death defines life, gives it a kind of intensity; because life is fleeting, each moment becomes precious. If life is eternal, then who cares? One can wait for tomorrow forever —then who will live now and here? Because tomorrow there is death, it forces you to live now and here. You have to plunge into the present moment; you have to go to its ultimate depth, because who knows, the next moment may come, may not come.”
OSHO –“What do you mean when you say: I am a Christian, or I am a Hindu, or I am a Buddhist? It means that I believe Gautama Buddha is going to be my redeemer, that I am simply waiting for Jesus Christ to come and redeem me. You have dropped every effort to transform yourself and that is the only way there is for any kind of transformation.”
OSHO –“Your body is already dead. What gives you the impression that it is alive is your life force, your being, which radiates through the .body which fills the body with aliveness. All that you have seen when people die is .that something has disappeared. You don’t know where it has gone whether it has gone anywhere, or simply ceased to be. So from the outside the fiction of death has been created.”
OSHO-“All moments are beautiful, only you have to be receptive and surrendering. All moments are blessings, only you have to be capable of seeing. All moments are benedictions. If you accept with deep gratitude, nothing ever goes wrong.”
OSHO-“All the Buddhas of all the ages have been telling you a very simple fact: Be — don’t try to become. Within these two words, be and becoming, your whole life is contained. Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance.”
OSHO-“Be creative. Don’t be worried about what you are doing — one has to do many things — but do everything creatively, with devotion. Then your work becomes worship.”
OSHO-“Ecstasy is our very nature; to be ecstatic is natural, spontaneous. It needs no effort to be ecstatic, it needs great effort to be miserable. That’s why you look so tired, because misery is really hard work; to maintain it is really difficult, because you are doing something against nature.”
OSHO-“Experience life in all possible ways — good-bad, bitter-sweet, dark-light, summer- winter. Experience all the dualities. Don’t be afraid of experience… the more experience you have, the more mature you become.”
OSHO-“I am releasing a sense of humour in you, a deep laughter in you. Laughter is prayer, it is more spiritual than I chanting mantras, it is far more cosmic than going to a place of worship.”
OSHO-“if the atom can have so much energy, what to say about man? What to say about this small flame of consciousness in man If some day this small flame bursts forth, it is bound to become an infinite source of energy and light. That’s how it has happened to a Buddha, or to a Jesus.”
OSHO-“In love you disappear, your mind disappears. In love you come to an utter relaxation. That’s my teaching to you, I teach love. And there is nothing higher than love.”
OSHO-“In the inner world no effort is needed. Once you start slipping inwards, you suddenly see everything is happening as it should. Life is perfect. There is no way to improve upon it. Then celebration starts.”
OSHO-“Laughter has tremendous beauty, a lightness. It will bring lightness to you, and it will give you wings to fly. A good laugh is tremendously meditative.”
OSHO-“Laughter is far more sacred than prayer, because prayer can be done by anyone whereas to laugh, one needs to have presence of mind; a quickness of seeing into things.”
OSHO-“Laughter is not irreligious. Laughter is one of the most evolved phenomena in human life. No other animal can laugh, it is only man who can laugh.”
OSHO-“Let your laughter be your only prayer Let your joy be your only offering. Love life! Love small things! Don’t miss a single moment.”
OSHO-“Life is not esoteric at all. It is written on each leaf of each tree, on each pebble on the seashore; it is contained in each ray of the sun—whatever you come across is life in all its beauty.”
OSHO-“Love makes you a unity — and not a union, remember, but a unity. Because in a union those who join together remain separate. In a unity they dissolve, they become one, they melt into each other. And that moment I call the moment of truth, when love has given you unity First, love gives you unity in your innermost core. Then you are no more a body, no more a mind, no more a soul. You are simply one —unnamed, undefined, unclassified. No more determinate, definable, no more comprehensible. A mystery, a joy, a surprise, a jubilation, a great celebration.”
OSHO-“My whole teaching consists of two words, “meditation” and “love”. Meditate so that you can feel immense silence, and love so that your life can become a song, a dance, a celebration.”
OSHO-“Never go towards God seriously; go laughing and dancing, and your prayer will be heard… and your thank-you will reach the address.”
OSHO-“No dead principles can help, but only living consciousness. Be absolutely unprincipled and just follow life.”
OSHO-“Remain in wonder if you want the mysteries to open up for you. Mysteries never open up for those who go on questioning. Questioners sooner or later end up in a library. Questioners sooner or later end up with scriptures, because scriptures are full of answers. And answers are dangerous, they kill your wonder.”
OSHO-“The deeper your laughter, the deeper will become your prayer. If you can dance, you have entered the shrine, you have come close to God.”
OSHO-“The whole play of existence is so beautiful that laughter can be the only response to it.”
OSHO-“What should I give to you today? Because this is my birthday, I was incarnated into this body on this day This is the day I saw for the first time the green of the trees and the blue of the skies. This was the day I for the first time opened my eyes and saw God all around. Of course the word ‘God’ didn’t exist at that moment, but what I saw was God. I was thinking, what should I give to you today? Then I remembered a saying of Buddha: Sabba Danam Dhamma Danana Jnati —the gift of truth excels all other gifts. And my truth is love.”
OSHO-“You can go on changing the outer for lives and you will never be satisfied; something or other will remain to be changed. Unless the inner changes, the outer can never be perfect.”
POPE –“We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow; our wiser sons, no doubt, will think us so.”
POPE- “Wit that can creep and pride that licks the dust.”
POPE GREGORY –“If the work of God could be comprehended by reason, it would be no longer wonderful.”
POPE JHON PAUL –“Believe! Do not be afraid to believe.”
POPE JHON PAUL –“The church strives to be the interpreter of the thirst modern men and women have for dignity.”
POPE JHON PAUL II –“Man always travels along precipices. His trust obligation is to keep his balance.”
POPE JOHN PAUL II –“If, with regard to natural resources, especially under the pressure of industrialization, an irresponsible culture of “dominion” has been reinforced with devastating ecological consequences, this certainly does not correspond to God’s plan. “Fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over! the birds of the air”. These famous words of Genesis entrust the earth to man’s use, not abuse.”
POPE JOHN PAUL II –“Our future on this planet, exposed as it is to nuclear annihilation, depends on one single factor: Humanity must make a moral about-face.”
POPE JOHN PAUL II –“Science can purify religion from error and superstition; religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes. Each can draw the other into a wider world, a world in which both can flourish… We need each other to be what we must be, what we are called to be.”
POPE JOHN PAUL II –“Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.”
POPE JOHN PAUL II –“Story of Survival: From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can survive.”
POPE JOHN XXIII –“Anybody can be Pope; the proof of this is that I have become one.”
POPE JOHN XXIII –“It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.”
POPE PAUL VI –“We see in these swift and skilful travellers a symbol of our life, which seeks to be a pilgrimage and a passage on this earth for the way of heaven.”