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Topic: Inner Peaks
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paras
Knowflake Posts: 1660
From: the Heart of It All
Registered: May 2004
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posted November 09, 2004 12:37 AM
 
To live dangerously means to live. If you don't live dangerously, you don't live. Living flowers only in danger. Living never flowers in security; it flowers only in insecurity.
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There are only two types of people in the world. People who want to live comfortably -- they are seeking death, they want a comfortable grave. And people who want to live -- they choose to live dangerously, because life thrives only when there is risk.
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Watch -- one can miss one's whole life for ordinary, mundane things. To be spiritual means to understand that these small things should not be given too much importance. I am not saying that they are meaningless. I am saying that they are meaningful but not as meaningful as you think.Money is needed. It is a need. But money is not the goal and cannot be the goal. A house is needed, certainly. It is a need. I am not an ascetic and I don't want you to destroy your houses and escape to the Himalayas. The house is needed -- but the house is needed for you. Don't misunderstand it. As I see people, the whole thing has gone topsy-turvy. They exist as if they are needed for the house. They go on working for the house. As if they are needed for the bank balance -- they simply go on collecting money and then they die. And they had never lived. They had never lived a single moment of throbbing, streaming life. They were just imprisoned in security, familiarity, respectability.
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Those who are courageous, go headlong. They search all opportunities of danger. Their life philosophy is not that of insurance companies. Their life philosophy is that of a mountain climber, a glider, a surfer. And not only in the outside seas they surf; they surf in their innermost seas. And not only on the outside they climb Alps and Himalayas; they seek inner peaks. -- Osho, The Joy of Living Dangerously  ------------------
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Sheaa Olein
Knowflake Posts: 2864
From: London
Registered: Jul 2004
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posted November 09, 2004 10:12 AM
I see what you're saying there paras, these are deep words! It's what I've been thinking on quite a lot lately in the sense of not letting opportunities pass me by. Circumstances sometimes means we cannot achieve what we'd like to at a time. However, opportunities present themselves if we want to ordain them!  I've had to pick up on making childhood dreams happen a little later in life than I wanted (actually thought I'd never have the chance to try). I'd love to experience a wide range of life ~ make the most of it and allow it to mould me. Cool Osho quote. Another thought provoker  IP: Logged |
lioneye68
Knowflake Posts: 6062
From: Canada
Registered: Apr 2003
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posted November 09, 2004 02:09 PM
i agree, if you never stick your neck out, you never know the thrill of excitement, and then you might as well go through life with a bag on your head. On the other hand, I don't think Osho is suggesting we wrecklessly place ourselves in the path of extreme danger, just for the heck of it. Just to "feel the fear....and do it anyway!" IP: Logged | |
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