Taking all crutches away

‎"I am not here to convince you about anything. I am not here to give you a dogma, a creed to live by. I am here to take all creeds away from you because only then will life happen to you. I am not giving you anything to live by, I am simply taking all props away from you, all crutches." ~ Osho

Our basic crime

‎"Before a child even asks a question, you stuff his head with an answer. That is a basic and major crime of all the religions." ~ Osho

I know nothing

"As for me, all I know is that I know nothing." ~ Socrates

An important gift to a girl

The most important gift anyone can give a girl is a belief in her own power as an individual, her value without reference to gender, her respect as a person with potential. ~ Emilie Buchwald

All souls are potentially divine

"All Souls are alike and potentially divine. None is Superior or Inferior."

Love and giving

"We may often give without love, but we can never love without giving." ~ Swami Chinmayananda

Ask, Seek, Knock

“And so I tell you, keep on asking, and you will receive what you ask for. Keep on seeking, and you will find. Keep on knocking, and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks, receives. Everyone who seeks, finds. And to everyone who knocks, the door will be opened." ~ Christ

Freedom is to be yourself

"You are totally free to choose, but once you choose, your very choice brings a limitation.If you want to remain totally free, then don't choose. That's where the teaching of choiceless awareness comes in. Why the insistence of the great masters just to be aware and not to choose? Because the moment you choose, you have lost your total freedom, you are left with only a part. But if you remain choiceless, your freedom remains total.So there is only one thing which is totally free and that is choiceless awareness. Everything else is limited."
Excerpted from 'Freedom, The Courage to be Yourself' by Osho

Liberation

"...it is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free."
~ Excerpted from 'The First and Last Freedom' by J. Krishnamurti

Truth

“An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi

Sunday Morning Gyan

Learn from the success of others and not their mistakes.

Not learning from the mistakes may be debated, but just think it this way that mistakes made in one scenario might not be the mistake in another. It also depends on the circumstances and the manner any step is taken and when we tend to learn from someone's mistake, we tend to generally opine that the reason why that person failed is not the right way to deal with something.

While learning from someone's success we learn what is the right way to do something, so..... think as the Sunday Morning Gyan is a Food For Thought.

Mayank

Ordinary man

"The ordinary man is living a very abnormal life, because his values are upside down. Money is more important than meditation; logic is more important than love; mind is more important than heart; power over others is more important than power over one's own being. Mundane things are more important than finding some treasures which death cannot destroy." ~ Osho

Result of our thoughts

"All that we are, and all that we become, is the direct result of our thoughts". ~ Buddha

Witnessing

"Just be a simple witness, a mirror which reflects and makes no judgment. This very moment you can become a witness. Witnessing is the only religion there is." ~ Osho

Creating organic unity

The word religion is very beautiful, but because of these priests it has fallen into wrong company. The word comes from an origin which means "coming together." But the priests have been doing just the opposite! They are creating splits in man, not oneness. Religion means creating in man ...an organic unity. It has nothing to do with God, it has something to do with you. It has nothing to do with worship, it has something to do with a transformation of your own consciousness. ~ Osho

Understand the whole

"You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life." ~ J. Krishnamurti

Quest

"A quest is the most significant thing for a seeker. A quest means you want to know, you want to experience, you want to be the truth itself." ~ Osho

Children

A woman who held a babe against her bosom said, "Speak to us of Children." And he said: Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams. You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday. You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth. The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far. Let your bending in the archer's hand be for gladness; For even as he loves the arrow that flies, so He loves also the bow that is stable.
Excerpt from "The Prophet" by Kahlil Gibran

Experience

"All conditionings are based on belief. And my whole effort is that experience should be the only criterion, not belief." ~ Osho

Joy & Sorrow

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy.
When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
Excerpted from 'Joy and Sorrow' by Kahlil Gibran