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You can only get next to God through the effort of preparation. To experience the uncreated, the state of awareness will have to be held…
— Barry Long
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There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude... we cannot give someone else greater power over us…
— Baron de Montesquieu
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When a man says I cannot, he has made a suggestion to himself. He has weakened his power of accomplishing that which otherwise would have…
— Muhammad Ali
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Just as the day cannot exist without the night, just as life cannot exist without death, creativity cannot exist without silence. And vice versa is…
— Rajneesh
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Look at the paintings of Picasso. He is a great painter, but just a subjective artist. Looking at his paintings, you will start feeling sick,…
— Rajneesh
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My sannyasins have to be creators, not through the mind but through meditation. And it comes of its own accord, one need not even think…
— Rajneesh
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She feels so contented in giving birth to a child, in helping the child to grow; and that's why she does not need any other…
— Rajneesh
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A small child has no ambitions, he has no desires. He is so absorbed in the moment - a bird on the wing catches his…
— Rajneesh
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Only when all your desires disappear does that energy become compassion, KARUNA. You cannot cultivate compassion. When you are desireless, compassion happens; your whole energy…
— Rajneesh
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The body is there because the mind seeks desires through the body; desires cannot be fulfilled without the body. You can be completely fulfilled without…
— Rajneesh
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The same is the case when you enter a womb, enter into a fresh body, and start the journey of desires. But if you die…
— Rajneesh
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When your desires drop, the world is there, but it is a totally new world. It is so fresh, it is so colorful, it is…
— Rajneesh
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When you don't cling to anything, there is nowhere to go - all boats have been abandoned, you cannot go anywhere; all paths have been…
— Rajneesh
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If Christianity was something we were making up, of course we could make it easier. But it is not. We cannot compete, in simplicity with…
— C.S. Lewis
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Be passive. In your passivity, God comes. Be feminine. In your femininity, God comes. Have you not watched it? Buddha looks very feminine, Krishna looks…
— Rajneesh
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The man and the woman are not really two separate entities, but the personality of the man needs the supporting qualities of the woman. If…
— Rajneesh
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Unless one becomes a womb one never becomes pregnant with god. One cannot conquer god, one can't be aggressive - that is the sure way…
— Rajneesh
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There's something magical about putting yourself into life. You've got to stand up and take responsibility for your own life and you cannot abandon that.
— Bill Kurtis
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We can never obtain peace in the world if we neglect the inner world and don't make peace with ourselves. World peace must develop out…
— Dalai Lama
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Will not perhaps the temporal power of Islam return and with it the menace of an armed Mohammedan world, which will shake off the domination…
— Hilaire Belloc
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