It’s never about the outside

“It’s never about the outside, it’s always the inside that paints your real world. If you can find love in the midst of bedlam, you know the truth.” ~ Amrish Shah

 

Nothing to lose, nothing to fear

“When you have nothing left to lose, you have nothing to fear” ~ Amrish Shah

 

Some songs don’t have a voice

“Some songs don’t have a voice;
Some wounds don’t have  scars”
~ Amrish Shah

 

Most beautiful words are never spoken

“The most beautiful words are the ones that are never spoken, they are simply felt” ~ Amrish Shah

 

Most beautiful dance is never performed

The most beautiful dance is never performed, it’s simply experienced” ~ Amrish Shah

 

Falling in love is routine

“Falling in love is routine…
Staying in love is miracle”
~ Amrish Shah

 

Most beautiful poetry is never recited

“The most beautiful poetry is never recited, it’s just heard” ~ Amrish Shah

 

Understand ourselves

“To understand life is to understand ourselves, and that is both the beginning and the end of education.”
~ Excerpted from ‘Education and the Significance of Life’ by J. Krishnamurti

Give your whole being

“You only learn when you give your whole being to something. When you give your whole being to mathematics,you learn; but when you are in a state of contradiction, when you do not want to learn but are forced to learn, then it becomes merely a process of accumulation. To learn is like reading a novel with innumerable characters; it requires your full attention, not contradictory attention.”

~ Jiddu Krishnamurti, Book of Life, The: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti

Understand a child

“To understand a child we have to watch him at play, study him in his different moods; we cannot project upon him our own prejudices, hopes and fears, or mould him to fit the pattern of our desires. If we are constantly judging the child according to our personal likes and dislikes, we are bound to create barriers and hindrances in our relationship with him and in his relationships with the world. Unfortunately, most of us desire to shape the child in a way that is gratifying to our own vanities and idiosyncrasies; we find varying degrees of comfort and satisfaction in exclusive ownership and domination.”

~ Excerpted from ‘Education and the Significance of Life’ by Jiddu Krishnamurti

Free of all authority

“To be free of all authority, of your own and that of another, is to die to everything of yesterday, so that your mind is always fresh, always young, innocent, full of vigour and passion. It is only in that state that one learns and observes. And for this, a great deal of awareness is required, actual awareness of what is going on inside yourself, without correcting it or telling it what it should or should not be, because the moment you correct it you have established another authority, a censor.”

~ Excerpted from 'Freedom from the Known' by Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.”
~ Excerpted from 'Freedom from the Known' by Jiddu Krishnamurti

Follow the wandering

“Follow the wandering, the distraction, find out why the mind has wandered; pursue it, go into it fully. When the distraction is completely understood, then that particular distraction is gone. When another comes, pursue it also. ”
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

When the ego is gone

“When the ego is gone, the whole individuality arises in its crystal purity – transparent, intelligent, radiant, happy, alive – vibrating with an unknown rhythm. That unknown rhythm is God. It is a song heard in the deepest core of your being, a dance of the formless, but one can hear the footsteps.” ~ Osho

Blind to see

Tell me why are we, so blind to see
That the one's we hurt, are you and me~ 'Gangsta's Paradise' by Coolio

Beauty not in face

"Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart." ~ Kahlil Gibran

Earth is like a beautiful bride

"The earth is like a beautiful bride who needs no man-made jewels to heighten her loveliness but is content with the green verture of her fields, the golden sands of her seashores and the precious stones of her mountains." ~ Kahlil Gibran

Comfort murders

"Verily the lust for comfort murders the passion of the soul, and then walks grinning in the funeral.” ~ Kahlil Gibran

Your own light

You remain retarded because of these people who go on telling you what is right and what is wrong.

They keep you in dependence, in slavery. And I have told you, the greatest slavery is spiritual slavery, and the whole of humanity is living under spiritual slavery.

I teach you rebellion!

Come out of the masses. Stand alone like a lion and live your life according to your own light. Find the light and it will show you the path. The path that is shown by your own light is the only path that is right. What others have been telling may be right for them; it cannot be right for you.

That's why I am not a moralist, I am not an immoralist. I am absolutely amoral. I don't consider morality or immorality at all. I am not a puritan who creates guilt in you.

Excerpted from "Yakusan: Straight to the Point of Enlightenment" by Osho

Deep and strong and strange

Here I sit between my brother the mountain and my sister the sea. We three are one in loneliness, and the love that binds us together is deep and strong and strange. Nay, it is deeper than my sister's depth and stronger than my brother's strength, and stranger than the strangeness of my madness.

Excerpted from "The Madman" by Kahlil Gibran