Dive deeper into own being

Only one tenth of our mind is conscious; nine tenth is in deep darkness - and that nine tenth is nine times more powerful. You have to change your unconscious slowly into consciousness. That's what meditation is all about; it is making your light grow bigger, slowly diving deeper into your own being. - Osho

Family makes child mediocre

Each child comes with a tremendous intelligence but the family makes him mediocre, because to live with an intelligent child is troublesome. He doubts, he is skeptical, he inquires, he is disobedient, he is rebellious - and the family wants somebody who is obedient, ready to follow, imitate.
Excerpted from 'Philosophia Ultima' by Osho

True nature

Realize your true nature. That is all there is to do. Know yourself as you are—infinite spirit. That is practical religion. Everything else is impractical, for everything else will perish.

The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves! If you do not exist, how can God or anybody else exist? - Vivekanand

Consciousness, the staircase

Consciousness is the staircase: step by step you become more and more conscious. Whatsoever you do, you do it with full consciousness - even walking, eating, going to bed, talking, listening - small things of life. And when you are in love, you are in love with full consciousness. It is not against yourself; it is not that you are possessed; it is not that you are being pulled by somebody like a magnet. No, you are moving on your own. - Osho

The path

You cannot travel the path until you have become the path itself. - Buddha

Nothing is lost

Siddhartha continues to listen to the river. He hears the voices of his youth, of all the people he had cared about and lost. He hears the voice flow to the sea, sees the river water become vapor, rise up to the sky and fall again as rain and dew. He sees that no thing and no one is lost.
Excerpted from 'If you meet Buddha on the road, kill him!' by Sheldon Kopp

Pollution and global warming

Pollution and global warming are just result of lack of love for the rest of creation. - Unknown

I had the blues

I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet. - Ancient Persian Saying

Water heats gradually

"Water heats gradually and boils suddenly"

We cannot force the natural course of events; everything happens in its 'right' time. The process is gradual, and hence may appear slow to us as we are often too impatient with expectations, but the change takes place within an instant.
Similarly, awakening can not be forced, but may be encouraged; just like a seed which sprouts naturally when the right conditions prevail.

Do what you will

"Do what you will; but not because you must."

Often our habits shape our decisions and choices in life. What we fail to realize is that our habits link us to the past and prevent us from making the most of life's offerings within the present moment.
But life is fresh in each moment and changes take place within the present moment. So, in order to experience the mystery and the magic of "now", we must break the habitual patterns of 'must's and 'must not's and live life as it comes.

Morality and meditation

The process of morality and meditation are opposite, diametrically opposite. In morality you go on putting more layers upon yourself, in meditation you start discarding layers. In meditation you discard, in morality you accumulate. In meditaion, you are just doing the same thing as when you peel an onion; it is a peeling. Layer by layer you go on throwing away untill nothing is left. - Osho

Anger

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger. - Buddha

Love yourself

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection. - Buddha

Face the truth

"Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinion of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth." - Vivekanand

Religion

Religion is not in books, nor in theories, nor in dogmas, nor in talking, not even in reasoning. It is being and becoming. - Vivekanand

Philosophy of Love

When it comes to love, you need not fall but rather surrender, surrender to the idea that you must love yourself before you can love another. You must absolutely trust yourself before you can absolutely trust another and most importantly you must accept your flaws before you can accept the flaws of another. - Buddha

Time ceases in awareness

Time is perhaps the greatest tension and trouble of our life. Time is conflict, anxiety and anguish of man. To live in time means to live stretched between it's two poles - the past and the future. Time always exists in exact proportion to our unconsciousness, to our psychological sleep. And when we are fully awake, aware, time ceases to be. The 'fire of awareness' burns time altogether. - Osho

Fearlessness

If there is one word that you find coming out like a bomb from the Upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon masses of ignorance, it is the word “fearlessness.” - Swami Vivekanad

The Nature of Things

Two monks were washing their bowls in the river when they noticed a scorpion that was drowning. One monk immediately scooped it up and set it upon the bank. In the process he was stung. He went back to washing his bowl and again the scorpion fell in. The monk saved the scorpion and was again stung.
The other monk asked him, "Friend, why do you continue to save the scorpion when you know it's nature is to sting?"
"Because," the monk replied, "to save it is my nature."

An inevitable occurrence

Enthroning queen Death is,
A deep conspiracy of assembly of life,
An inevitable occurrence,
When, where and how,
Depends on make-up of life.

Excerpted from 'The Endless End' by Jatan Raj Jain