I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing. Socrates
By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. Socrates
Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
Socrates
The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways--I to die and you to live. Which is the better, only God knows.
Socrates,
Saturday, September 4, 2010
OSHO on Suicide
1) To feel that life is utterly meaningless is to be on a crossroads: either you choose suicide or you choose sannyas; either you choose madness or you choose meditation. It is a great turning-point!
2) What are you going to gain out of suicide? Why this constant thinking about it? You will be born into another womb and will again start the same cycle.
3) People commit suicide not because they are really finished with life but because life is not fulfilling their demands. But no life ever fulfills anybody’s demands. You will always go on missing something or other: if you have money, you may not be beautiful; if you are beautiful, you may not be intelligent; if you are intelligent, you may not have money.
4) That’s the point Buddha would like you to reach. Where you start thinking of suicide, only there is sannyas possible — not before it. When you think the whole life is meaningless, only then does your energy start being concentrated on one point — that now some other meaning has to be searched for. “This life has failed, in toto. Now another life has to be searched for. I have lived outside myself and seen it is all sadness and agony. Now I have to turn inwards — a one-hundred-and-eighty-degree turn.”
2) What are you going to gain out of suicide? Why this constant thinking about it? You will be born into another womb and will again start the same cycle.
3) People commit suicide not because they are really finished with life but because life is not fulfilling their demands. But no life ever fulfills anybody’s demands. You will always go on missing something or other: if you have money, you may not be beautiful; if you are beautiful, you may not be intelligent; if you are intelligent, you may not have money.
4) That’s the point Buddha would like you to reach. Where you start thinking of suicide, only there is sannyas possible — not before it. When you think the whole life is meaningless, only then does your energy start being concentrated on one point — that now some other meaning has to be searched for. “This life has failed, in toto. Now another life has to be searched for. I have lived outside myself and seen it is all sadness and agony. Now I have to turn inwards — a one-hundred-and-eighty-degree turn.”
BUDDHA TALKING
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. Buddha
In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then beleive them to be true. Buddha
It is better to travel well than to arrive. Buddha
Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others. Buddha
In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then beleive them to be true. Buddha
It is better to travel well than to arrive. Buddha
Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others. Buddha
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