The best music of life

“Love is the best music in the score of life. Without it , one would forever be out of tune in the immense choir of humanity." ~ Roque Schneider

Milky Way

If the Milky Way were not within me how should I have seen it or known it?
Excerpted from ‘Sand and Foam’ by Kahlil Gibran

Teacher

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.
Excerpted from ‘Sand and Foam’ by Kahlil Gibran

Life is ecstasy

"Every child is born ecstatic. Ecstasy is natural. It is not something that happens only to great sages. It is something that everybody brings with him into the world; everybody comes with it. It is life's innermost core. It is part of being alive. Life is ecstasy."
Excerpted from 'Ecstasy: The Forgotten Language' by Osho

True love (A Sufi story)

Shibli entered a profound mystical state and was placed in an asylum as a madman. As soon as they heard, his shocked disciples come to visit him. Shibli asked, "Who are you?" "We are some of those who love and follow you." Shibli began throwing stones at his students. They began to run away, crying, "It's true, Shibli really has gone crazy." Then Shibli called out to them, "Didn't I hear you say that you loved me? You could not even bear a stone or two before running away. What became of that sincere love you claimed you had for me? Did your love fly away with a couple of stones? If you had really loved me, you would have patiently endured the little bit of discomfort I caused you."

False must leave

"To find yourself is to lose yourself."
To know our true Self, we must cease to identify with the illusory identity which feels separated from the whole under the survival instincts fed by the ego. For the real to come, the false must leave.

The traveled path

"Never walk on the travelled path, because it only leads you where the others have been." ~ Graham Bell

Find the answer within

"Nothing can be taught to a man; but it’s possible to help him to find the answer within himself." ~ Galileo Galilei

Celebrate life

"Life should not only be lived, it should be celebrated." ~ Osho

Religion and science

"The third teaching of Bahá'u'lláh is that religion and science are in complete agreement. Every religion, which is not in accordance with established science is superstition. Religion must be with reason, it is superstition without foundation. It is like a mirage, which deceives man by leading him to think it is a body of water.
God has endowed man with reason that he may perceive what is true. If we insist that such a subject is not to be reasoned out and tested according to the established logical modes of the intellect, what is the use if the reason, which god has given to man." - Abdu'l-Bahá

Borrowed idea

"Your whole idea about yourself is borrowed--borrowed from those who have no idea of who they are themselves." - Osho