Iqbal, that great poet, was so right. The moment you recognize what is beautiful in this world, you stop being a slave. To hell with the Naxals and their guns shipped from China. If you taught every poor boy how to paint, that would be the end of the rich in India.
Renunciation, or refusing to identify with that which one gathers (however precious it may be), is the ultimate doorway to knowing.
The whole spiritual process is just this: that you are willing to take the next step not knowing where it will lead you. If you are not ready for that, that means you are not ready for any new possibility.
Once your intellect gets identified with something, it gets chained to the identifications, and leaves you with a completely distorted experience of the world.
If your sadness is reminding you that you are incomplete, it is good. Make use of your sadness to grow. When sadness sets in, if you become more compassionate, more caring, and more loving, you have some sense in you.
Whatever has been the highest experience in your life should become the centerpiece around which your life is structured.
By consciously getting your body into a certain posture, you can also elevate your consciousness, you can change the very way you feel, think, understand, and experience life simply by sitting in a particular way.
Resentment, anger, jealousy, pain, hurt, and depression are poisons that you drink but expect someone else to die. Life does not work that way. Most people take lifetimes to understand this simple truth.
Life is a circus when your intellect and your body alone are involved. Life is a dance, when the intelligence begins to play its role.
Unless you begin to see the hollowness of where you are right now, you will not begin to seek something else strongly.
Every human being is longing for involvement. Not for touch, not for a kiss, not for sex, not for anything else; one is basically longing for a deep sense of involvement.
The walls of self-preservation that you build for today are the walls of self-imprisonment for tomorrow. Boundaries that you establish in your life as a protection for yourself today will feel like constraints tomorrow.
Believing means you have assumed something that you do not know; seeking means you have realized that you do not know.
The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife. - Will Durant
The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds. - Will Durant
In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order. - Will Durant
The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It's the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages. - Will Durant
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