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

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