A Traveler

A traveler am I and a navigator, and every day I discover a new region within my soul.
Excerpted from 'Sand and Foam' by Kahlil Gibran

Still carrying

Two traveling monks reached a river where they met a young woman. Wary of the current, she asked if they could carry her across. One of the monks hesitated, but the other quickly picked her up onto his shoulders, transported her across the water, and put her down on the other bank. She thanked him and departed.

As the monks continued on their way, the one was brooding and preoccupied. Unable to hold his silence, he spoke out. "Brother, our spiritual training teaches us to avoid any contact with women, but you picked that one up on your shoulders and carried her!"

"Brother," the second monk replied, "I set her down on the other side, while you are still carrying her."

Our conception

“If it were not for our conception of weights and measures we would stand in awe of the firefly as we do before the sun.”
Excerpted from ‘Sand and Foam’ by Kahlil Gibran

Truly great man

"The truly great man is he who would master no one, and who would be mastered by none."
Excerpted from ‘Sand and Foam’ by Kahlil Gibran

Absence of opinion

"Don't search for truth, simply stop having opinions"

Enlightenment is not an opinion, but a state achieved through the absence of all opinions. It is not an idea, but an awareness of the consciousness that experiences all ideas.
This consciousness is vast and limitless, like a clear blue sky, and ideas are clouds that pass across the sky. When we focus on the clouds, we miss seeing the base that holds them all.

Record our emptiness

Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky. We fell them down and turn them into paper that we may record our emptiness.
Excerpted from 'Sand and Foam' by Kahlil Gibran

A Rebel

A rebel is one who wants no rule in the world. A rebel is anarchic. A rebel is one who trusts nature, not man made structures, who trusts that if nature is left alone, everything will be beautiful.
Excerpted from 'Ecstasy: The forgotten Language' by Osho

Experience now

"Look and see with your own eyes. If you hesitate, you miss the mark forever."

If we know how to look and see into the nature of life, the present moment provides all the signs and answers to help our journey. Hesitating means missing the present moment and hence all it has to offer.
If we hold back from fully embracing life today, we will miss it forever; because "now" is the only reality and life is experienced "now".

Who are you?

Only once have I been made mute. It was when a man asked me, " Who are you?"
Excerpted from 'Sand and Foam' by Kahlil Gibran

Beautiful world

You are living in such a tremendously beautiful world, with all the stars and the planets and the sun and the moon... with the flowers and the mountains and the rivers and the rocks and the animals, the birds and the people.
This is the most perfect world possible, it cannot be improved upon. Enjoy its beauty. Relish the celebration that goes on around you.
It is a continuous celebration. - Osho