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Reaction and Response.

What is the difference between reaction and response? There is much, a lot of difference, not only in quantity but quality. A reaction is out of the past, a response is out of the present. You react out of the past old patterns. Somebody insults you: suddenly the old mechanism starts functioning. In the past people have insulted […]

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Rejoice Life…

REJOICE LIFE WITH SIMPLICITY OF THE HEART…. Life can be known only with a simple heart. Head is very complex, and life is very simple. It is difficult from a complex head to understand the simple life. Life is simply simple. You have also to be simple. A child understands more. He has a rapport

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What are you missing?

Once it happened that a man was very ill. The illness was that he continually felt that his eyes were popping out and his ears were ringing – continually. By and by, he became crazy because it went on twenty-four hours a day. He couldn’t sleep, he couldn’t do his work. So he consulted doctors.

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3 Stages of Spiritual Growth.

There are three steps in the spiritual growth– steps or stages. They can differ with each individual but there are always three. One is independence. That is an egoistic state: you want to be independent of all which is false, which is not possible because you are not independent, you cannot be. You are a

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Leave Children Alone.

A religion is to be sought. A religion has to be chosen consciously. Nobody should be made a Christian or a Hindu or a Mohammedan or a Jain by birth. Birth has nothing to do with religion. Because of this association with birth, the whole world seems to be religious, and nobody is religious. Everybody

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A much deeper phenomenon.

WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO SAY ABOUT DARKNESS? I have much to say about darkness, because nobody has taken notice of the mystery that darkness is. Much has been said about light, almost nothing about darkness. But darkness is a much deeper phenomenon than light is. Light comes and goes – darkness remains; it never

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Live Totally, Die Totally.

HOW CAN WE PREPARE OURSELVES FOR DEATH? DON’T accumulate anything whatever: power, money, prestige, virtue, knowledge, even the so-called spiritual experiences. Don’t accumulate. If you don’t accumulate you are ready to die any moment, because you have nothing to lose. The fear of death is not really fear of death; the fear of death comes

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RETIRE when your work is done.

TO BE PROUD WITH WEALTH AND HONORIS TO SOW THE SEEDS OF ONE’S OWN DOWNFALL.RETIRE WHEN YOUR WORK IS DONE.SUCH IS HEAVEN’S WAY.RETIRE WHEN YOUR WORK IS DONE. WHEN YOU SEE that a work has given you balance, that you have attained happiness, don’t ask formore; when you feel good don’t ask for more; when

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Five Knots on Scarf.

WHAT IS THE GREATEST PROBLEM IN THE WORLD? THE greatest problem or the smallest problem, it is the same: MAN. And when I say man, I do notmean something abstract. I mean I, you, he, she. There exists no man as such, separate from human beings. Man lives a problematic life, and dies a problematic

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