posted February 09, 2005 04:14 PM         

Great quote Yin. It's similar to my all time favorite quote.

To thine own self be true,
and it must follow, as the night the day,
thou can not then be false to any man.
~William Shakespeare

second favorite:

We dont see things as they are, we see things as we are.
~Anais Nin

posted February 09, 2005 09:53 PM         

quote:

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"The most effective revenge is the one not taken." ANONYMOUS

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And if I may, indulge in a few of my own...

• Death as the termination of life is the greatest lie which has been perpetuated upon mankind, for the truth is that it's quite impossible to kill 'YOU', death an option made by the real 'YOU' as an individual consciousness which dwells within that body for the moment is entirely beyond death, and that TRUTH of immortality will be come real in your physical existence. For the truth is YOU are deathless, in every sense.

• Your wishes can be yours. But force not your will upon Nature to grant this request. Rather, expand your wish and let it be incorporated upon the natural harmony of things. So, what you envision, inevitably becomes a reality in it's due course.

• Nature is neither purposly mean or nice. It neither punishes the bad nor rewards the good, and this means that whatever we do and whatever we attain in life is the result of our own doing.
  Which only through ourselves it is seen as good or bad.

• We don't really live in reality. Or do we? We live in our perceptions, and our perceptions of existence are THE realities of our existence.

• Destiny isn't a map that forces you to go where you should go, rather, it is where you will go if you harmonize with existence, and thus your true destiny unfolds in it's awesome splendur.

• Accept all situations that are presented to you instead of wondering what it could have been, or should have been.

• You are not alone in the Universe, you are part of the whole synchronisity drama, and by the way, whoever created you has created you to create, and who you created may also create, you even can your own eternal realities. That's the True Gift of Love. Eternity.

Lots of Love
Sufi-Rose

posted February 11, 2005 11:20 AM         

Here are some of my favorite quotes by Osho:

To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it.

Falling in love you remain a child; rising in love you mature. By and by love becomes not a relationship, it becomes a state of your being. Not that you are in love - now you are love.

Become more and more innocent, less knowledgeable and more childlike. Take life as fun - because that's precisely what it is!

To be alone in the only real revolution. To accept that you are alone is the greatest transformation that can happen to you.

Drop the fear. Fear was taken up by you in your childhood, unconsciously. Now consciously drop it and be mature. Then the life can be a light which goes on deepening as you go on growing.

Know the whole world is nothing when it is compared to knowing your own inner mystery of life.

Seriousness is a sickness; your sense of humor makes you more human, more humble. The sense of humor -- according to me -- is one of the most essential parts of religiousness.

Misery nourishes your ego -- that's why you see so many miserable people in the world. The basic, central point is the ego.

There is no evil and there are no evil forces in the world. There are only
people of awareness, and there are people who are fast asleep -- and sleep has no force. The whole energy is in the hands of the awakened people. And one awakened person can awaken the whole world. One lighted candle can make millions of candles lighted without losing it's light.

posted February 11, 2005 03:30 PM         

Remember with OSHOS site, when you go into Q&A's that you now have to pay to enter his library?
I recently found an unofficial OSHO site that is similar but everything is Free..YAY!
http://www.freeosho.cjb.net/
Click on subject index and away you go!

posted March 11, 2005 09:00 PM         

"Only through realizing our imperfections will we ever reach perfection"

"Live to Love, and you'll Love to Live"

...That's all I can think of right now.

posted March 19, 2005 11:42 AM         

You are what your deep, driving desire is. As your desire is, so is your will. As your will is, so is your deed. As your deed is, so is your destiny.
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad

Who sees all beings in his own Self, and his own Self in all beings, loses all fear.

He who knows both the transcendent and the immanent, with the immanent overcomes death and with the transcendent reaches immortality.

posted March 19, 2005 11:49 AM         

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.

Know the whole world is nothing when it is compared to knowing your own inner mystery of life.

The beauty of facing life unprepared is tremendous. Then life has a newness, a youth; then life has a flow and freshness. Then life has so many surprises. And when life has so many surprises boredom never settles in you.

Your innermost core has always been pure. Purity is intrinsic to you, it cannot be taken away. Your virginity is eternal. You cannot lose it, there is no way to lose it. You can only forget about it or you can remember it. If you forget about it, you live in confusion. If you remember about it, all is clear.

Life is not a tragedy, it is a comedy. To be alive means to have a sense of humor.

posted April 15, 2005 05:35 AM         

I dont know who said this, but it's my current favorite:

Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways screaming "WOO HOO what a ride!"

and the classic by Marrianne Williamson:

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Out deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves “Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?” Actually, who are you not to be?

Your playing small doesn’t serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”