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1) âOne good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.â
2) âSome people feel the rain. Others just get wet.â
3) âNone but ourselves can free our minds.â
4) âOne love, one heart, one destiny.â
5) âThe truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.â
6) âLove the life you live.
live the life you love.â
7) âYou may not be her first, her last, or her only. She loved before she may love again. But if she loves you now, what else matters? She's not perfectâyou aren't either, and the two of you may never be perfect together but if she can make you laugh, cause you to think twice, and admit to being human and making mistakes, hold onto her and give her the most you can. She may not be thinking about you every second of the day, but she will give you a part of her that she knows you can breakâher heart. So don't hurt her, don't change her, don't analyze and don't expect more than she can give. Smile when she makes you happy, let her know when she makes you mad, and miss her when she's not there.â
8) âIf she's amazing, she won't be easy. If she's easy, she won't be amazing. If she's worth it, you won't give up. If you give up, you're not worthy. ... Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you; you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.â (Guitar Chord Songbook - Bob Marley)
9) âDon't Gain The World & Lose Your Soul, Wisdom Is Better Than Silver Or Gold.â
10) âOnly once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that youâve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you say and actually want to hear more. You share hopes for the future, dreams that will never come true, goals that were never achieved and the many disappointments life has thrown at you. When something wonderful happens, you canât wait to tell them about it, knowing they will share in your excitement. They are not embarrassed to cry with you when you are hurting or laugh with you when you make a fool of yourself. Never do they hurt your feelings or make you feel like you are not good enough, but rather they build you up and show you the things about yourself that make you special and even beautiful. There is never any pressure, jealousy or competition but only a quiet calmness when they are around. You can be yourself and not worry about what they will think of you because they love you for who you are. The things that seem insignificant to most people such as a note, song or walk become invaluable treasures kept safe in your heart to cherish forever. Memories of your childhood come back and are so clear and vivid itâs like being young again. Colours seem brighter and more brilliant. Laughter seems part of daily life where before it was infrequent or didnât exist at all. A phone call or two during the day helps to get you through a long dayâs work and always brings a smile to your face. In their presence, thereâs no need for continuous conversation, but you find youâre quite content in just having them nearby. Things that never interested you before become fascinating because you know they are important to this person who is so special to you. You think of this person on every occasion and in everything you do. Simple things bring them to mind like a pale blue sky, gentle wind or even a storm cloud on the horizon. You open your heart knowing that thereâs a chance it may be broken one day and in opening your heart, you experience a love and joy that you never dreamed possible. You find that being vulnerable is the only way to allow your heart to feel true pleasure thatâs so real it scares you. You find strength in knowing you have a true friend and possibly a soul mate who will remain loyal to the end. Life seems completely different, exciting and worthwhile. Your only hope and security is in knowing that they are a part of your life.â
11) âThe greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positivelyâ
12) âBetter to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.â
13) âLife is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!â
14) âDon't worry about a thing, every little thing is gonna be alrightâ
15) âWho are you to judge the life I live?
I know I'm not perfect
-and I don't live to be-
but before you start pointing fingers...
make sure you hands are clean!â
16) âThe good times of today are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.â
17) âI don't stand for black man's side, I don't stand for white man's side, I stand for God's side.â
18) âThe winds that sometimes take something we love, are the same that bring us something we learn to love. Therefore we should not cry about something that was taken from us, but, yes, love what we have been given. Because what is really ours is never gone forever.â
19) âEmancipate yourselves from mental slavery.
None but ourselves can free our minds.â
20) âHeâs not perfect. You arenât either, and the two of you will never be perfect. But if he can make you laugh at least once, causes you to think twice, and if he admits to being human and making mistakes, hold onto him and give him the most you can. He isnât going to quote poetry, heâs not thinking about you every moment, but he will give you a part of him that he knows you could break. Donât hurt him, donât change him, and donât expect for more than he can give. Donât analyze. Smile when he makes you happy, yell when he makes you mad, and miss him when heâs not there. Love hard when there is love to be had. Because perfect guys donât exist, but thereâs always one guy that is perfect for you.â
21) âWhen one door is closed, don't you know that many more are openâ
22) âYou say you love rain, but you use an umbrella to walk under it. You say you love sun, but you seek shelter when it is shining. You say you love wind, but when it comes you close your windows. So that's why I'm scared when you say you love me.â
23) âWake up and liveâ
24) âHerb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction.â
25) âJudge not unless you judge yourselfâ
26) âOpen your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?â
27) âThe people who were trying to make this world worse are not taking the day off. Why should I?â
28) âLove would never leave us aloneâ
29) âYou have to be someone.â
30) âThough the road's been rocky it sure feels good to me.â
31) âThe biggest coward of a man is to awaken the love of a woman without the intention of loving her.â
32) âMy feet is my only carriage.â
33) âWhen you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself.â
34) âGet up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight.â (Bob Marley - Legend)
35) âYou can fool some people sometimes but you can't fool all the people all the timeâ
36) âOvercome the devils with a thing called love.â
37) âMy music will go on forever. Maybe it's a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.â
38) âYou can't find the right roads when the streets are paved.â
39) âThe day you stop racing, is the day you win the race.â
40) âMe only have one ambition, y'know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together - black, white, Chinese, everyone - that's all.â
We have seen the enemy and he is us.
âAs human beings living in this monstrously ugly world, let us ask ourselves, can this society, based on competition, brutality and fear, come to an end? Not as an intellectual conception, not as a hope, but as an actual fact, so that the mind is made fresh, new and innocent and can bring about a different world altogether? It can only happen, I think, if each one of us recognises the central fact that we, as individuals, as human beings, in whatever part of the world we happen to live or whatever culture we happen to belong to, are totally responsible for the whole state of the world.â â Jiddu Krishnamurti
âThis one questionâ"What do I know for certain?ââis tremendously powerful. When you look deeply into this question, it actually destroys your world. It destroys your whole sense of self, and itâs meant to. You come to see that everything you think you know about yourself, everything you think you know about the world, is based on assumptions, beliefs, and opinionsâthings you believe because you were taught or told that they were true. Until we start to see these false perceptions for what they really are, consciousness will be imprisoned within the dream state.â
â Adyashanti (via davejwatson)
The definition of true love.
Taken from Tom Stoppardâs 1982 play The Real Thing . (Brainpickings)
Itâs to do with knowing and being known. I remember how it stopped seeming odd that in biblical Greek, knowing was used for making love. Whosit knew so-and-so. Carnal knowledge. Itâs what lovers trust each other with. Knowledge of each other, not of the flesh but through the flesh, knowledge of self, the real him, the real her, in extremis, the mask slipped from the face. Every other version of oneself is on offer to the public. We share our vivacity, grief, sulks, anger, joy⌠we hand it out to anybody who happens to be standing around, to friends and family with a momentary sense of indecency perhaps, to strangers without hesitation. Our lovers share us with the passing trade. But in pairs we insist that we give ourselves to each other. What selves? Whatâs left? What else is there that hasnât been dealt out like a deck of cards? Carnal knowledge. Personal, final, uncompromised. Knowing, being known. I revere that. Having that is being rich, you can be generous about whatâs shared â she walks, she talks, she laughs, she lends a sympathetic ear, she kicks off her shoes and dances on the tables, sheâs everybodyâs and it donât mean a thing, let them eat cake; knowledge is something else, the undealt card, and while itâs held it makes you free-and-easy and nice to know, and when itâs gone everything is pain. Every single thing. Every object that meets the eye, a pencil, a tangerine, a travel poster. As if the physical world has been wired up to pass a current back to the part of your brain where imagination glows like a filament in a lobe no bigger than a torch bulb. Pain.

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Once you learn these 9 powerful Life Lessons from a Taoist Monk, youâll be much stronger
Following are 9 things that the monk taught him:
1. NEVER GIVE UP AND KEEP TRYING
The most important thing that he learned was that the key is to keep trying and trying and never run out of patience. His teacher taught him that if something does not work out in a way, there are a lot of other ways to keep trying the same thing till he achieve his goal. Versatility and not giving up always works out in the end.
2. YOU WILL ALWAYS HAVE THE SOLUTION INSIDE YOU
We all know that teachers can show the way to us but we have to walk through on our own⌠all by ourselves. When we make a table we can be showed how to make one side of it, but we have to do the rest on our own. This is how we learn how to function in life. When we travel to another country it is up to us how we follow our subconscious and our inner voice⌠how we take everything in our stride and we make it through without being familiar with our surroundings. Life will always throw new situations at us and it is our job to figure out where we will go and how.
3. YOU LEARN SOMETHING ONLY AFTER YOU TRY AND DONâT SUCCEED
Before he walked on this path whenever he did not succeed in something it would take him years to get over it. He had started working when he was young and whenever he did not succeed professionally, he would dismiss himself to a point where he could not get himself to go to the office after that. It went to a point where he was close to leaving his job until he became good at it. When he first started calming down and meditating, concentration was a big barrier but he did not give up. He kept trying. We all know that what does not kill makes us stronger.
4. WHEN YOU START THIS YOU START TO RECOGNISE YOUR EGO.
Our ego stems from a place of comparison and he would crib because he was not as successful as his peers. When he started meditating he began to individualise this ego and stopped comparing. He stopped blaming himself and understood that his ego was his solution to nothing. Meditating helps you separate yourself from the worldly emotion of comparison.
5. WE MUST DEVELOP FEELINGS OF COMPASSION AND RESILIENCE.
His teacher refused to meet him if he did not call him at least five times. He was very aggravated by the whole process. Now, this taught him how the real world functions because you generally donât hear back from someone until you try numerous times. This was part of his training, but it also taught him how life works. We should remember to be compassionate but not be weak and soft.
6. PATIENCE IS A VIRTUE
His teacher made him wait excruciatingly long before he met him. If he went to his house, he would make him wait for an hour or when they meet at restaurants, he would tell him to meet him at a time but turn up hours later. He would be anxious the whole time thinking about how everybody must be judging him for waiting alone and not ordering anything. He would then turn up acting like nothing happened and showing no signs of remorse. He would always ask him how his parents were and then go on with his normal banter. This taught him to not be upset about things and learning to understand that patience comes from calmness of soul.
7. LET GO OF YOUR EGO
When it started it was painful to sit by himself in restaurants for a long time because he was constantly thinking that he was seen as a loser, alone in a restaurant, but the real truth is that other peopleâs opinions donât matter. He used to get really bogged down just by anything and everything before walking on this path of self discovery. He recently noticed how a plane delay of hours did not affect him at all. When you let go of your ego, you learn to take in whatever is thrown at you and make the best of it.
8. TAOISM SAYS âNO SELF, NO ENEMYâ
Your enemy is within you that causes all your insecurities. Once you understand this; it will change every aspect of your life. There are times that we donât do something simply because we are scared. Evaluate how things would go on smoothly if you donât give in to your fear and be happy with what you already have in your life.
9. HAPPINESS CAN BE FOUND WELL EXTERNALLY AS WELL AS INTERNALLY
This was taught to him by the Buddhist physician. He used to meditate before he would go to meet his folks. He is one of the happiest people that Robert have ever come across. By finding happiness within, he reached an emotional stage where he could spread it everywhere. We must manufacture happiness inside to make the world a happier place and finding a legitimate purpose in life and have real goals.
Robert Piper is a meditation instructor & the creator of monkinthecity.com. He studied with a Taoist monk for 9 ½ years & traveled to Asia & Australia in search of other meditation teachers
According to Taoism These 3 Non-Actions Are the Real Secret to Life Mastering
Ever woken up in the morning and felt like you donât really have the reins in your hands? Ever felt like you canât really tell if you are doing well or not? Every individual lives through days like these and itâs okay to be honest.
The first step is to want to master your life and you are half way there. Once you accept it, the next question is how.
We all wrestle our own demons and cope with the boulders life throws our way every day, in our own small and subjective ways. And every little effort is worthy of applause.
Distilling the essence of Oriental Zen philosophy, the conclusion we have reached is:Â The secret to mastering your life is non-action.
Now this can be hard to reconcile with Western concepts like âhard work gets rewardedâ and the preoccupation with effort, but this has the base pillar in Taoist philosophy; in the notion of Wu Wei or âaction through inactionâ
These so-called ânon-actionsâ are the ones that give rise to actions. And they are: Trust, Appreciate and Just-Be.
TRUST
Trust in the situation. Whatever happens, happens for a reason.
When something doesnât meet your expectations, let it be; itâs the situation, not you.
Surrender; donât give up. Surrender to a higher power behind all the background noise and learn to accept whatever is happening as something not in your hands.
Your mind will create diversions, eddies and dams, but you shouldnât let that stop your flow of the creative juices. Let that not stop your thoughts from taking flight.
Let your own intuition take hold of you and the world will do the rest.
Trust in the divine to help you in times of need and indecisiveness.
And no matter what setbacks you face, smile; be positive about life.
APPRECIATE
Always count the smallest of blessings: that sky is not gloomy, the air is fresh, the birds are chirping and the train is on time.
Be grateful to something up there and then youâll see what you do have and stop complaining about things you donât.
Change the way you look at life. Look at it like a gift and not something you are forced into.
Might seem very hard initially, but really that is the way to go.
Appreciate the people who love you; the world might end tomorrow, and you donât want that silence on your conscience. Tell them every day that you appreciate their existence and that you love them. And most important, learn to forgive, if not forget.
JUST BE. EXIST
âCogito ergo sumââ I think, therefore I am; explained Rene Descartes.
So, think. Exist and ponder on it; reflect on your past and try and imagine a better future.
Once you realise how much trouble every atom in the universe took to form you as a human being, you will be happy just by existing! That is the first step towards making an effort about your current situation in the first place.
Yes, imagine a future, but donât get carried away by the vision; Things might or might not fall into the places you want them to. After all life is not a game of dominoes.
Choose to be rooted and aware of the present moment and be grateful to be. Your intuition, which is something as inexplicable but true as the existence of God, will be your guide as you will start to notice the limitless pool of resources you can draw from.
Life is not necessarily a âSeries of Unfortunate Eventsâ.
And like my favourite performance poet, Rudy Francisco puts it, and mind you these are lines I swear by:
â[âŚ]it doesnât matter if the glass is half full or half empty, thereâs water in the cup.â
Drink it, and stop complaining.
Muscle is created by repeatedly lifting things that have been designed to weigh us down. So when your shoulders feel heavy, stand up straight and lift your chin â call it exercise. When the world crumbles around you, you have to look at the wreckage and then build a new one out of the pieces that are still here.
Remember, you are still here.
The human heart beats approximately four thousand times per hour.
Each pulse, each throb, each palpitation is a trophy engraved with the words âYou are still aliveâ.
You are still alive.
Act like it.â
Cheers and Godspeed.
https://simplecapacity.com/2017/10/the-3-non-actions-that-are-the-real-secret-to-life-mastering/
Freedom From the Known, by Jiddu Krishnamurti
Man has throughout the ages been seeking something beyond himself, beyond material welfare â something we call truth or God or reality, a timeless state â something that cannot be disturbed by circumstances, by thought or by human corruption.
Man has always asked the question: what is it all about? Has life any meaning at all? He sees the enormous confusion of life, the brutalities, the revolt, the wars, the endless divisions of religion, ideology and nationality, and with a sense of deep abiding frustration he asks, what is one to do, what is this thing we call living, is there anything beyond it?
And not finding this nameless thing of a thousand names which he has always sought, he has cultivated faith â faith in a saviour or an ideal â and faith invariably breeds violence.
In this constant battle which we call living, we try to set a code of conduct according to the society in which we are brought up, whether it be a Communist society or a so-called free society; we accept a standard of behaviour as part of our tradition as Hindus or Muslims or Christians or whatever we happen to be. We look to someone to tell us what is right or wrong behaviour, what is right or wrong thought, and in following this pattern our conduct and our thinking become mechanical, our responses automatic. We can observe this very easily in ourselves.
We Have Been Spoon-Fed by Our Teachers
For centuries we have been spoon-fed by our teachers, by our authorities, by our books, our saints. We say, `Tell me all about it â what lies beyond the hills and the mountains and the earth?â and we are satisfied with their descriptions, which means that we live on words and our life is shallow and empty. We are second-hand people. We have lived on what we have been told, either guided by our inclinations, our tendencies, or compelled to accept by circumstances and environment. We are the result of all kinds of influences and there is nothing new in us, nothing that we have discovered for ourselves; nothing original, pristine, clear.
Throughout theological history we have been assured by religious leaders that if we perform certain rituals, repeat certain prayers or mantras, conform to certain patterns, suppress our desires, control our thoughts, sublimate our passions, limit our appetites and refrain from sexual indulgence, we shall, after sufficient torture of the mind and body, find something beyond this little life. And that is what millions of so-called religious people have done through the ages, either in isolation, going off into the desert or into the mountains or a cave or wandering from village to village with a begging bowl, or, in a group, joining a monastery, forcing their minds to conform to an established pattern. But a tortured mind, a broken mind, a mind which wants to escape from all turmoil, which has denied the outer world and been made dull through discipline and conformity â such a mind, however long it seeks, will find only according to its own distortion.
So to discover whether there actually is or is not something beyond this anxious, guilty, fearful, competitive existence, it seems to me that one must have a completely different approach altogether. The traditional approach is from the periphery inwards, and through time, practice and renunciation, gradually to come upon that inner flower, that inner beauty and love â in fact to do everything to make oneself narrow, petty and shoddy; peel off little by little; take time; tomorrow will do, next life will do â and when at last one comes to the centre one finds there is nothing there, because oneâs mind has been made incapable, dull and insensitive.
Having observed this process, one asks oneself, is there not a different approach altogether â that is, is it not possible to explode from the centre?
The First Step is to Reject the Traditional Approach
The world accepts and follows the traditional approach. The primary cause of disorder in ourselves is the seeking of reality promised by another; we mechanically follow somebody who will assure us a comfortable spiritual life. It is a most extraordinary thing that although most of us are opposed to political tyranny and dictatorship, we inwardly accept the authority, the tyranny, of another to twist our minds and our way of life. So fl we completely reject, not intellectually but actually, all so-called spiritual authority, all ceremonies, rituals and dogmas, it means that we stand alone and are already in conflict with society; we cease to be respectable human beings. A respectable human being cannot possibly come near to that infinite, immeasurable, reality.
You have now started by denying something absolutely false â the traditional approach â but if you deny it as a reaction you will have created another pattern in which you will be trapped; if you tell yourself intellectually that this denial is a very good idea but do nothing about it, you cannot go any further. If you deny it however, because you understand the stupidity and immaturity of it, if you reject it with tremendous intelligence, because you are free and not frightened, you will create a great disturbance in yourself and around you but you will step out of the trap of respectability. Then you will find that you are no longer seeking. That is the first thing to learn â not to seek. When you seek you are really only window-shopping.
The question of whether or not there is a God or truth or reality, or whatever you like to call it, can never be answered by books, by priests, philosophers or saviours. Nobody and nothing can answer the question but you yourself and that is why you must know yourself. Immaturity lies only in total ignorance of self. To understand yourself is the beginning of wisdom.
And what is yourself, the individual you? I think there is a difference between the human being and the individual. The individual is a local entity, living in a particular country, belonging to a particular culture, particular society, particular religion. The human being is not a local entity. He is everywhere. If the individual merely acts in a particular corner of the vast field of life, then his action is totally unrelated to the whole. So one has to bear in mind that we are talking of the whole not the part, because in the greater the lesser is, but in the lesser the greater is not. The individual is the little conditioned, miserable, frustrated entity, satisfied with his little gods and his little traditions, whereas a human being is concerned with the total welfare, the total misery and total confusion of the world.
We human beings are what we have been for millions of years â colossally greedy, envious, aggressive, jealous, anxious and despairing, with occasional flashes of joy and affection. We are a strange mixture of hate, fear and gentleness; we are both violence and peace. There has been outward progress from the bullock cart to the jet plane but psychologically the individual has not changed at all, and the structure of society throughout the world has been created by individuals. The outward social structure is the result of the inward psychological structure of our human relationships, for the individual is the result of the total experience, knowledge and conduct of man. Each one of us is the storehouse of all the past. The individual is the human who is all mankind. The whole history of man is written in ourselves.
Observe What is Taking Place Within and Outside Yourself
Do observe what is actually taking place within yourself and outside yourself in the competitive culture in which you live with its desire for power, position, prestige, name, success and all the rest of it â observe the achievements of which you are so proud, this whole field you call living in which there is conflict in every form of relationship, breeding hatred, antagonism, brutality and endless wars. This field, this life, is all we know, and being unable to understand the enormous battle of existence we are naturally afraid of it and find escape from it in all sorts of subtle ways. And we are frightened also of the unknown â frightened of death, frightened of what lies beyond tomorrow. So we are afraid of the known and afraid of the unknown. That is our daily life and in that there is no hope, and therefore every form of philosophy, every form of theological concept, is merely an escape from the actual reality of what is.
All outward forms of change brought about by wars, revolutions, reformations, laws and ideologies have failed completely to change the basic nature of man and therefore of society. As human beings living in this monstrously ugly world, let us ask ourselves, can this society, based on competition, brutality and fear, come to an end? Not as an intellectual conception, not as a hope, but as an actual fact, so that the mind is made fresh, new and innocent and can bring about a different world altogether? It can only happen, I think, if each one of us recognises the central fact that we, as individuals, as human beings, in whatever part of the world we happen to live or whatever culture we happen to belong to, are totally responsible for the whole state of the world.
We are each one of us responsible for every war because of the aggressiveness of our own lives, because of our nationalism, our selfishness, our gods, our prejudices, our ideals, all of which divide us. And only when we realize, not intellectually but actually, as actually as we would recognise that we are hungry or in pain, that you and I are responsible for all this existing chaos, for all the misery throughout the entire world because we have contributed to it in our daily lives and are part of this monstrous society with its wars, divisions, its ugliness, brutality and greed â only then will we act.
But what can a human being do â what can you and I do â to create a completely different society? We are asking ourselves a very serious question. Is there anything to be done at all? What can we do? Will somebody tell us? People have told us. The so-called spiritual leaders, who are supposed to understand these things better than we do, have told us by trying to twist and mould us into a new pattern, and that hasnât led us very far; sophisticated and learned men have told us and that has led us no further. We have been told that all paths lead to truth â you have your path as a Hindu and someone else has his path as a Christian and another as a Muslim, and they all meet at the same door â which is, when you look at it, so obviously absurd. Truth has no path, and that is the beauty of truth, it is living. A dead thing has a path to it because it is static, but when you see that truth is something living, moving, which has no resting place, which is in no temple, mosque or church, which no religion, no teacher, no philosopher, nobody can lead you to â then you will also see that this living thing is what you actually are â your anger, your brutality, your violence, your despair, the agony and sorrow you live in. In the understanding of all this is the truth, and you can understand it only if you know how to look at those things in your life. And you cannot look through an ideology, through a screen of words, through hopes and fears.
There is No Guide, Teacher or Authority
So you see that you cannot depend upon anybody. There is no guide, no teacher, no authority. There is only you â your relationship with others and with the world â there is nothing else. When you realize this, it either brings great despair, from which comes cynicism and bitterness, or, in facing the fact that you and nobody else is responsible for the world and for yourself, for what you think, what you feel, how you act, all self-pity goes. Normally we thrive on blaming others, which is a form of self-pity.
Can you and I, then, bring about in ourselves without any outside influence, without any persuasion, without any fear of punishment â can we bring about in the very essence of our being a total revolution, a psychological mutation, so that we are no longer brutal, violent, competitive, anxious, fearful, greedy, envious and all the rest of the manifestations of our nature which have built up the rotten society in which we live our daily lives?
It is important to understand from the very beginning that I am not formulating any philosophy or any theological structure of ideas or theological concepts. It seems to me that all ideologies are utterly idiotic. What is important is not a philosophy of life but to observe what is actually taking place in our daily life, inwardly and outwardly. If you observe very closely what is taking place and examine it, you will see that it is based on an intellectual conception, and the intellect is not the whole field of existence; it is a fragment, and a fragment, however cleverly put together, however ancient and traditional, is still a small part of existence whereas we have to deal with the totality of life. And when we look at what is taking place in the world we begin to understand that there is no outer and inner process; there is only one unitary process, it is a whole, total movement, the inner movement expressing itself as the outer and the outer reacting again on the inner. To be able to look at this seems to me all that is needed, because if we know how to look, then the whole thing becomes very clear, and to look needs no philosophy, no teacher. Nobody need tell you how to look. You just look.
Can you then, seeing this whole picture, seeing it not verbally but actually, can you easily, spontaneously, transform yourself? That is the real issue. Is it possible to bring about a complete revolution in the psyche?
I wonder what your reaction is to such a question? You may say, `I donât want to changeâ, and most people donât, especially those who are fairly secure socially and economically or who hold dogmatic beliefs and are content to accept themselves and things as they are or in a slightly modified form. With those people we are not concerned. Or you may say more subtly, `Well, itâs too difficult, itâs not for meâ, in which case you will have already blocked yourself, you will have ceased to enquire and it will be no use going any further. Or else you may say, `I see the necessity for a fundamental inward change in myself but how am I to bring it about? Please show me the way, help me towards it.â If you say that, then what you are concerned with is not change itself; you are not really interested in a fundamental revolution: you are merely searching for a method, a system, to bring about change.
You Wonât Find a System Within These Words
If I were foolish enough to give you a system and if you were foolish enough to follow it, you would merely be copying, imitating, conforming, accepting, and when you do that you have set up in yourself the authority of another and hence there is conflict between you and that authority. You feel you must do such and such a thing because you have been told to do it and yet you are incapable of doing it. You have your own particular inclinations, tendencies and pressures which conflict with the system you think you ought to follow and therefore there is a contradiction. So you will lead a double life between the ideology of the system and the actuality of your daily existence. In trying to conform to the ideology, you suppress yourself â whereas what is actually true is not the ideology but what you are. If you try to study yourself according to another you will always remain a second-hand human being.
A man who says, `I want to change, tell me how toâ, seems very earnest, very serious, but he is not. He wants an authority whom he hopes will bring about order in himself. But can authority ever bring about inward order? Order imposed from without must always breed disorder.
You may see the truth of this intellectually but can you actually apply it so that your mind no longer projects any authority, the authority of a book, a teacher, a wife or husband, a parent, a friend or of society? Because we have always functioned within the pattern of a formula, the formula becomes the ideology and the authority; but the moment you really see that the question, `How can I change?â sets up a new authority, you have finished with authority for ever.
Let us state it again clearly: I see that I must change completely from the roots of my being; I can no longer depend on any tradition because tradition has brought about this colossal laziness, acceptance and obedience; I cannot possibly look to another to help me to change, not to any teacher, any God, any belief, any system, any outside pressure or influence. What then takes place?
First of all, can you reject all authority? If you can it means that you are no longer afraid. Then what happens? When you reject something false which you have been carrying about with you for generations, when you throw off a burden of any kind, what takes place? You have more energy, havenât you? You have more capacity, more drive, greater intensity and vitality. If you do not feel this, then you have not thrown off the burden, you have not discarded the dead weight of authority.
Activating Your Life Force Begins Now
But when you have thrown it off and have this energy in which there is no fear at all â no fear of making a mistake, no fear of doing right or wrong â then is not that energy itself the mutation? We need a tremendous amount of energy and we dissipate it through fear but when there is this energy which comes from throwing off every form of fear, that energy itself produces the radical inward revolution. You do not have to do a thing about it.
So you are left with yourself, and that is the actual state for a man to be who is very serious about all this; and as you are no longer looking to anybody or anything for help, you are already free to discover. And when there is freedom, there is energy; and when there is freedom it can never do anything wrong. Freedom is entirely different from revolt. There is no such thing as doing right or wrong when there is freedom. You are free and from that centre you act. And hence there is no fear, and a mind that has no fear is capable of great love. And when there is love it can do what it will.
What we are now going to do, therefore, is to learn about ourselves, not according to me or to some analyst or philosopher â because if we learn about ourselves according to someone else, we learn about them, not ourselves â we are going to learn what we actually are.
Having realized that we can depend on no outside authority in bringing about a total revolution within the structure of our own psyche, there is the immensely greater difficulty of rejecting our own inward authority, the authority of our own particular little experiences and accumulated opinions, knowledge, ideas and ideals. You had an experience yesterday which taught you something and what it taught you becomes a new authority â and that authority of yesterday is as destructive as the authority of a thousand years. To understand ourselves needs no authority either of yesterday or of a thousand years because we are living things, always moving, flowing, never resting. When we look at ourselves with the dead authority of yesterday, we will fail to understand the living movement and the beauty and quality of that movement.
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.
Investigating Ourselves Together
So now we are going to investigate ourselves together â not one person explaining while you read, agreeing or disagreeing with him as you follow the words on the page, but taking a journey together, a journey of discovery into the most secret corners of our minds. And to take such a journey we must travel light; we cannot be burdened with opinions, prejudices and conclusions â all that old furniture we have collected for the last two thousand years and more. Forget all you know about yourself; forget all you have ever thought about yourself; we are going to start as if we knew nothing.
It rained last night heavily, and now the skies are beginning to clear; it is a new fresh day. Let us meet that fresh day as if it were the only day. Let us start on our journey together with all the remembrance of yesterday left behind â and begin to understand ourselves for the first time.
How this one revelation changed my life
I used to believe I needed to be successful before I deserved to find someone who could love me.
I used to believe there was a âperfect personâ out there and I just had to find them.
I used to believe I would finally be happy once I found âthe oneâ.
What I now know is that these limiting beliefs were stopping me from building deep and intimate relationships with the people I was meeting. I was chasing an illusion that was leading me to loneliness.
If you want to change anything in your life, one of the most effective ways is to change your beliefs.
Unfortunately, itâs not an easy thing to do.
Iâm lucky to have worked directly with the shaman RudĂĄ IandĂŞ in changing my beliefs about love. Doing so has changed my life forever.
Now, RudĂĄâs teachings can change your life, too.
As the founder of Ideapod, Iâm in a unique position to be able to bring RudĂĄâs teachings to our global community.
On Diverse Deviations
When love is a shimmering curtain Before a door of chance That leads to a world in question Wherein the macabrous dance Of bones that rattle in silence Of blinded eyes and rolls Of thick lips thin, denying A thousand powdered moles, Where touch to touch is feel And life a weary whore       I would be carried off, not gently       To a shore,       Where love is the scream of anguish       And no curtain drapes the door.
Angelou mentions her intense fear of love. Here, love forces her acceptance. When this draped curtain meant to beguile her is at last removed, the door to love is no longer âof chance.â While the curtain originally appears to create an illusionary world of wonder, the macabre and dreadful imagery it hides equivalent to rotting and deceased corpses increases the presence of the sinister intents. Yet because the door drags her into this desolate and decrepit world, Angelou was already aware about these intents. Clinging onto every limb of her body, this savage world demands she accept her fate unwillingly thrust upon her.
What appears in these upcoming poems suggests the beginning to the end of Angelouâs love life or at least of this poetry book. Here, the world is unforgiving and demanding. It is not âin questionâ when Angelou knew exactly what to expect behind its cold confines. Here, the final resources available are being used as others dance to this harmful melody. Her nonchalant approach in this topic denotes the extent to which she has relinquished her reins on this topic.
She must get through this door. She cannot avoid this door. She has a âchoiceâ necessarily to accept it and be drawn in by the illusions that entice her or to be forcibly dragged in relentlessly. These confines of intimacy refuse her any chance to say no. Here she is violently taken in and here she stays.
On Diverse Deviations
When love is a shimmering curtain Before a door of chance That leads to a world in question Wherein the macabrous dance Of bones that rattle in silence Of blinded eyes and rolls Of thick lips thin, denying A thousand powdered moles, Where touch to touch is feel And life a weary whore       I would be carried off, not gently       To a shore,       Where love is the scream of anguish       And no curtain drapes the door.
Angelou mentions her intense fear of love. Here, love forces her acceptance. When this draped curtain meant to beguile her is at last removed, the door to love is no longer âof chance.â While the curtain originally appears to create an illusionary world of wonder, the macabre and dreadful imagery it hides equivalent to rotting and deceased corpses increases the presence of the sinister intents. Yet because the door drags her into this desolate and decrepit world, Angelou was already aware about these intents. Clinging onto every limb of her body, this savage world demands she accept her fate unwillingly thrust upon her.
What appears in these upcoming poems suggests the beginning to the end of Angelouâs love life or at least of this poetry book. Here, the world is unforgiving and demanding. It is not âin questionâ when Angelou knew exactly what to expect behind its cold confines. Here, the final resources available are being used as others dance to this harmful melody. Her nonchalant approach in this topic denotes the extent to which she has relinquished her reins on this topic.
She must get through this door. She cannot avoid this door. She has a âchoiceâ necessarily to accept it and be drawn in by the illusions that entice her or to be forcibly dragged in relentlessly. These confines of intimacy refuse her any chance to say no. Here she is violently taken in and here she stays.

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âWhether one is rich or poor, educated or illiterate, religious or non believing, man or woman, black, white, or brown, we are all the same. Physically, emotionally, and mentally, we are all equal. We all share basic needs for food, shelter, safety, and love. We all aspire to happiness and we all shun suffering. Each of us has hopes, worries, fears, and dreams. Each of us wants the best for our family and loved ones. We all experience pain when we suffer loss and joy when we achieve what we seek. On this fundamental level, religion, ethnicity, culture, and language make no difference.â
â Dalai Lama (via davejwatson)
Did you know that when Einstein gave some conference in the numerous universities of USA, the recurring question that the students did was:
- Do you believe in God?
And he always answered:
- I believe in the God of Spinoza.
The one who hadn't read Spinoza stayed in the same...
I hope this gem of history will serve them as much as I do.
Baruch De Spinoza was a Dutch philosopher considered one of the three great rationalist in the century of philosophy, along with French Descartes. Here's some of him.
This is the God or nature of Spinoza:
God would have said:
"Stop being praying and giving you blows in the chest, what I want you to do is to go out into the world to enjoy your life.
I want you to enjoy, you sing, have fun and enjoy everything I've done for you.
Stop going to those gloomy, dark and cold temples that you built yourself and that you say to be my home.
My house is in the mountains, in the forests, the rivers, the lakes, the beaches. That's where I live and express all my love for you.
Stop blaming me for your miserable life; I never told you you were a sinner.
Stop having me so scared. I do not judge you, nor criticize you, nor anger me, nor bother me, nor punishment. I am pure love.
Stop asking me forgiveness, there's nothing to forgive. If I made you... I filled you with passions, limitations, pleasures, feelings, needs, inconsistencies... of free will, how can I blame you if you answer something that I put in you? How can I punish you for being as you are, if I'm the one I made you? Do you think I could create a place to burn all my children who misbehave, for the rest of eternity?
What kind of God can do that?
Forget about any kind of commandments, of any kind of laws; those are wiles to manipulate you, to control you and that only create guilt in you.
Respect your peers and don't do what you don't want for you. The only thing I ask is that you pay attention in your life, that your alert status is your guide. This life is the only thing there is, here and now and the only thing you need.
I have made you absolutely free, there are no prizes or punishments, there are no sins or virtues, no one carries a marker, no one carries a record.
You are absolutely free to create in your life a heaven or hell.
I couldn't tell you if there's anything after this life, but I can give you a tip. Live as if there wasn't.
As if this was your only chance to enjoy, to love, to exist.
So, if there is nothing, then you will have enjoyed the opportunity I gave you. And if there is, be sure that I will not ask you if you behaved well or wrong, I will ask you. Did you like it?... did you have fun What did you enjoy the most? What did you learn?...
Stop believing in me; believe is to assume, guess, imagine. I don't want you to believe in me, I want you to feel in you when you kiss your beloved, when you throw your little girl, when you love your dog, when you bathe in the sea.
Stop praise me. What kind of egotistical God do you think I am?
I'm bored to praise me, I'm fed up to thank me. Do you feel grateful? Prove it taking care of you, your health, your relationships, the world. Do you feel looked, overwhelmed?... Express your joy! That's the way to praise me.
The only thing sure is that you are here, that you are alive, that this world is full of wonders.
What do you need more miracles for?
Why so many explanations?
Don't look for me outside, you won't find me. Find me inside... there I'm beating in you."
Baruch De Spinoza
Was in third grade, i liked that pretty girl in class. She was sitting right across the room. There was this moment we shared when we both were adjusting our seats and our eyes met. We smiled at eachother. One time, i just wanted to say that I love her. Saw her playing with her 2 friends during a break. I went to her but stopped within some feet away. I was fucking scared. We never talked nor exchanged any words with eachother the whole year, and changed schools the next year. By mid year at the new school, i recognized her. She had changed completely, physically.( i learnt later that she had an operation for a fatal health issue and that it'd taken a heavy toll on her). The only words that came to my mouth was, " are you 'blah blah'?". She shyly nodded. I smiled and went on my way. She was definitely my first crush. Years later, i was surprised that i too was her first......life is funny. Sometimes i wonder, what if i had approached her, disregarding the fear...how would that have turned out?
She came with her heart open for love, He only gave her the pain she wanted to forget. Now, he carries the pain he wants to be forgiven for...

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Donât Expect Applause ~ ChĂśgyam Trungpa http://bit.ly/1nalcvV
Donât expect others to praise you or raise toasts to you. Donât count on receiving credit for your good deeds or good practice.
ChĂśgyam Trungpa
from the book âTraining the Mind and Cultivating Loving-Kindnessâ http://amzn.to/1dhRznm
Experience Enslaved To Ignorance ~ 14th Dalai Lama http://bit.ly/1ekJQdD
Suffering is nothing but experience enslaved to ignorance.
14th Dalai Lama
from the book âEssence of the Heart Sutraâ http://amzn.to/1cRKjA2
translated by Thupten Jinpa