A Thought Appears

"A thought appears. Is there someone thinking or is it only the echo of a knock on the door, reverberating through an empty house?" - Wu Hsin

Progress

Author, Or Character

"The character in a book cannot write the book in which he appears. Investigate whether you are the author or the character" - Wu Hsin

Hot Coal

Being Alone

"We fear being alone, as it is experienced as one step before not-being. Yet, for those who see the unity of all things, aloneness has no meaning." - Behind the Mind: The Short Discourses of Wu Hsin

Prevent Rather Than Avenge

If You Love A Flower

"If you love a flower, don't pick it up. Because if you pick it up it dies and it ceases to be what you love. So if you love a flower, let it be. Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation" - OSHO

And All Will Be Lost

Your Own

"Once you realise that there is nothing in the world which you can call your own, you look at it from the outside as you look at a play on the stage, or a picture on the screen, admiring and enjoying, but really unmoved.

As long as you imagine yourself to be something tangible and solid, a thing among things, actually existing in time and space, short lived and vulnerable, naturally you will be anxious to survive and increase"
 - Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Slavery Was Never Abolished

Wisdom Is Better

"Don't gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold" - Bob Marley

Two Ways To Be Fooled

Change

"Change is never painful, only the resistance to change is painful" - Buddha

Find A Way

Let Them Teach You

"Watch any plant or animal and let it teach you acceptance of what is, surrender to the Now. Let it teach you Being. Let it teach you integrity - which means to be one, to be yourself, to be real. Let it teach you how to live and how to die, and how not to make living and dying a problem" - Eckhart Tolle

Your Hate

To Be Alone

"It's beautiful to be alone. To be alone does not mean to be lonely. It means the mind is not influenced and contaminated by society" - Jiddu Krishnamurti

Flames In The Dark

Let Your True Nature Emerge

"There is nothing to practice. To know yourself, be yourself. To be yourself, stop imagining yourself to be this or that. Just be. Let your true nature emerge. Don't disturb your mind with seeking" - Nisargadatta Maharaj

The Dark Side

Two Things Are Infinite

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity" - Albert Einstein

A Universe

Together As Brothers

"We must learn to live together as brothers, or perish together as fools." - Martin Luther King Jr.

You Are Alone

Attachments

"How do you let go of attachments to things? Don't even try. It's impossible. Attachments to things drop away by itself when you no longer seek to find yourself in them." - Eckhart Tolle

Cognitive Dissonance

The Journey

"The only thing that is ultimately real about your journey is the step that you are taking at this moment. That's all there ever is" - Eckhart Tolle

Roads

Rise and Fall of Thoughts

"Ocean does not complain about the dance of ten million waves! So don't be concerned about the rise and fall of thoughts" - Papaji

Exploration

Empty of Yourself

"First you have to be empty of yourself and then you become full of God" - OSHO

Truth Is Like The Sun

Happiness and Inner Peace

"Is there a difference between happiness and inner peace? Yes. Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive; inner peace does not" - Eckhart Tolle

Blasphemy!

Only Two Mistakes

"There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth: not going all the way, and not starting" - Buddha

Our Anxiety

Moving Totally

"Don't move the way fear makes you move. Move the way love makes you move. Move the way joy makes you move" - OSHO

The Cosmos

Look Well

"Look well into thy self; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there" - Marcus Aurelius

Truth Seeker

Learning vs Education

"The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education" - Albert Einstein

The Sun Will Rise

Pursuit of Truth & Beauty

"The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives" - Albert Einstein

Too Many Jellyfish

It All Belongs To You

"Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize their is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you" - Lao Tzu

Parachute

An Innocent Misunderstanding

"Because of an innocent misunderstanding you think that you are a human being in the relative world seeking the experience of oneness, but actually you are the One expressing itself as the experience of being a human being" - Adyashanti

Nothing More Powerful

Changing The World

"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself" - Leo Tolstoy

It Is What It Is

Fear of Death

"The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time" - Mark Twain

Beauty Is Life

Fooling People

"It is easier to fool people than to convince them they have been fooled" - Mark Twain

The Debate

Destroyed By Truth

"If it can be destroyed by the truth it deserves to be destroyed by the truth" - Carl Sagan

Pride From Knowledge

Alignment With The Universe

"What the universe will manifest when you are in alignment with it is a lot more interesting than what you try to manifest" - Adyashanti

An Opened Mind

Enemy of Knowledge

"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge" - Stephen Hawking

Feeling Sick?

Prisoner

"Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner" - Lao Tzu

Something Special

Rich and Famous

"I hope everybody could get rich and famous and will have everything they ever dreamed of, so they will know that it's not the answer" - Jim Carrey

The End Of The Ocean

The End Of All Drama

"When you live in complete acceptance of what is, that is the end of all drama in your life" - Eckhart Tolle

Prospect of Death

Just Keep Quiet

"Don't be too quick to interpret the moment. Just keep quiet. My encouragement would always be: never think anything is against you, everything is blessing. Why should it be different? Just be quiet. Let it all work itself out" - Mooji

Insatiable Curiosity

Change

"Change can be scary, but you know what's scarier? Allowing fear to stop you from growing, evolving, and progressing" - Mandy Hale

Tell No One

Bound In Darkness

"In all formed matter, the heart of Light always exists. Even though bound in the darkness, inherent Light always exists" - Djehuti

What Makes Us Different

You're Right

"Whether you think you can, or think you can't, you're right" - Henry Ford

Walk Alone

Fate

"Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate" - Carl Jung

What If?

Foreseeing The Future

"I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned only with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following" - Mahatma Gandhi 

Still You Don't See

Waves of the Universe

"Let the waves of the universe rise and fall as they will. You have nothing to gain or lose. You are the ocean. " - Ashtavakra Gita

Pursuit of Truth

Meditation

"Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in eternal awareness or pure consciousness without objectification - knowing without thinking, merging finitude with infinity" - Voltaire

The Teacher

Human Beings

"If you could look inside the heart of any and every single human being, you would fall in love with them completely. If you see the inside as it really is and not as your mind projects it to be, you would be so purely in love with the whole thing" - Mooji

Life Is Simple

Being Alive

"I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive" - Joseph Campbell

Half Awake

Life Is Without Meaning

"Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning" - Joseph Campbell

Thinking Is Difficult

All For Nothing

"You know, underneath everything in your life, there is that thing - that empty, 'forever empty'. That knowledge that it's all for nothing and you're alone. And sometimes when things clear away, you're not watching anything, it starts to visit you" - Louis C. K.

It's All Up To You

Life Going Upside Down?

"And do not worry that your life is turning upside down. How do you know that the side you are used to is better than the one to come?" - Rumi

A Web of Lies

Life Is Simple

"Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you. Everything happens at exactly the right moment, neither too soon nor too late. You don't have to like it... it's just easier if you do" - Byron Katie

Mastery

Judging

"Thinking is difficult, that's why most people judge" - Carl Jung

Be Wise

Real Freedom

"Real freedom is the freedom from the demand to feel good all the time" - Adyashanti

The Path

Fortunate Dogs

"A dog does not know he is a dog. He only knows he is. If only man could be so fortunate" - Wu Hsin

Defined By Others