WHY DO I MAKE FUNNY FACES?First, an anecdote…A person was frighteningly ugly. Once he was asked how he could go on living with such a terrible face?“Why should I be unhappy?” answered the man. “I never see my own face. Let others worry.” So you simply throw your mirrors — that’s all. And this is […]
HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY !!! It was pre-partition time when a grand gala literary festival was organized in Lahore. As a part of that festival, one evening a grand Mushaira (symposium of poets/shayars) was planned. Many renowned and celebrated poets and shayars were invited from all over the United India. Young and relatively unknown shayars were
Osho says, “I will not tell you to drop the ego. I am fully aware how cunning the ego is. It can even play the game of dropping itself, and you can say, ”Look, I am the humblest person in the world, the most egoless.” It has come in from the back door again; now
“I am sorry! — but I have never regretted in my life, for the simple reason that whatever I do, I do it wholeheartedly. You regret because you never do things wholeheartedly, you are always divided. Some part of you wants to do it, some part of you is against doing it. If you do
“You can live in the world and yet not be of the world. You can live in the world and not allow the world to live in you. All that is needed is a little watchfulness. A small story …. Just as you have heard the name of Cleopatra — one of the most beautiful
WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN SOMEBODY HATES YOU? “WHETHER SOMEBODY HATES YOU OR SOMEBODY LOVES YOU SHOULD NOT MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE IN YOU. I was reading a story. Two psychiatrists lived in the same building. Every evening they would come back from their offices and they often rode on the same elevator together. The elevator
“The original word SIN means “to miss”. It doesn’t mean to commit something wrong; it simply means to miss, to be absent. The Hebrew root for the word sin means ‘to miss’. That exists in a few English words: mis-conduct, mis-behavior. “To miss” means not to be there, doing something without being present there — this is
THERE WERE TWO FRIENDS OF THE KING,AND BOTH WERE PROVED GUILTY OF A CRIME.SINCE HE LOVED THEM THE KING WANTED TO SHOW THEM MERCY,BUT HE COULD NOT ACQUIT THEM BECAUSE EVEN A KING’S WORDCANNOT PREVAIL OVER THE LAW.SO HE GAVE THIS VERDICT:A ROPE WAS TO BE STRETCHED OVER A DEEP CHASM,AND, ONE AFTER ANOTHER, THE
“One soul within two bodies:That’s exactly the meaning of harmony. It is the most exquisite experience. Ordinarily we are living in conflict, in disharmony. Parents are feeling a generation gap between themselves and their own children. There seems to be no common ground of understanding; harmony is a faraway goal. They don’t even understand each
One can be either Rama or Ravana, but there is no way to be in between. Our trouble is that we know perfectly well that we are not Rama, but it is a big hurt to the ego and the mind does not want to agree to it. It is hard enough for the mind
