If love is really love... Just being in the presence of the other you feel suddenly happy, just being together you feel ecstatic, just the very presence of the other fulfills something deep in your heart... something starts singing in your heart, you fall into harmony. Just the very presence of the other helps you to be together; you become more individual, more centered, more grounded. Then it is love.
Love is not a passion, love is not an emotion. Love is a very deep understanding that somebody somehow completes you. Somebody makes you a full circle. The presence of the other enhances your presence. Love gives freedom to be yourself; it is not possessiveness.
Be alert, and when you start feeling with someone that just the presence, the pure presence -- nothing else, nothing else is needed; you don't ask anything -- just the presence, just that the other is, is enough to make you happy... something starts flowering within you, a thousand and one lotuses bloom... then you are in love, and then you can pass through all the difficulties that reality creates. Many anguishes, many anxieties -- you will be able to pass all of them, and your love will be flowering more and more, because all those situations will become challenges. And your love, by overcoming them, will become more and more strong.
Love is eternity. If it is there, then it goes on growing and growing. Love knows the beginning but does not know the end.
Sunday, April 10, 2011
Friday, April 08, 2011
Innocence and Wonder
Jesus said: "Unless you are like small children, you will not enter in the kingdom of God."
A lover
A girl came back home from the school and asked her grandmother, "Granny, what is a lover ?"
"A lover!!" the grandmother said. "Let me think. Lov... Lover... Oh, my God!"
She rushed to the wall, pulled aside the hanging rug, revealing a hidden closet door. She unlocked the door, and a skeleton of a young man fell out from the closet.
"A lover!!" the grandmother said. "Let me think. Lov... Lover... Oh, my God!"
She rushed to the wall, pulled aside the hanging rug, revealing a hidden closet door. She unlocked the door, and a skeleton of a young man fell out from the closet.
Bad luck
With a pile of 300 resumes on his desk and a need to pick someone quickly, the boss told his assistant to make calls on the bottom 50 and toss the rest.
"Throw away 250 resumes?"asked the assistant, shocked, "What if the best candidates are in there?"
"You have a point," he said. "But then again, I don't need people with bad luck here."
"Throw away 250 resumes?"asked the assistant, shocked, "What if the best candidates are in there?"
"You have a point," he said. "But then again, I don't need people with bad luck here."
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
The Carpenter
After forty years of hard work an old carpenter dies and goes to heaven. When he gets to the Pearly Gates he knocks on the door. Saint Peter opens it and says, "Yes?"
The old carpenter explains, "I am an old carpenter. I have worked hard for forty years, I never did any harm to anyone, and I am here for my reward."
Saint Peter replies, "I don't know about that. Wait here for a minute and I will go and get some information on you."
He goes inside and is about to talk to the boss, God, when he runs into Jesus. Jesus says, "Why are you all excited?" So Peter tells him the whole story: an old carpenter, worked hard for forty years, never did any harm to anyone.
Jesus listens to the story with mounting interest and asks, "Did he have white hair?"
Peter says, "Yes!"
"Little pixie eyeglasses with chromium frames?"
"Yes!"
"About so tall? Wearing a waistcoat, a little paunchy?"
"Yes, yes, yes!" says Peter.
Jesus runs to the Pearly Gates, throws open the door, takes a look at the little old man and cries at the top of his lungs, "Daddy!"
And the carpenter looks at him and joyously exclaims, "Pinocchio!"
The old carpenter explains, "I am an old carpenter. I have worked hard for forty years, I never did any harm to anyone, and I am here for my reward."
Saint Peter replies, "I don't know about that. Wait here for a minute and I will go and get some information on you."
He goes inside and is about to talk to the boss, God, when he runs into Jesus. Jesus says, "Why are you all excited?" So Peter tells him the whole story: an old carpenter, worked hard for forty years, never did any harm to anyone.
Jesus listens to the story with mounting interest and asks, "Did he have white hair?"
Peter says, "Yes!"
"Little pixie eyeglasses with chromium frames?"
"Yes!"
"About so tall? Wearing a waistcoat, a little paunchy?"
"Yes, yes, yes!" says Peter.
Jesus runs to the Pearly Gates, throws open the door, takes a look at the little old man and cries at the top of his lungs, "Daddy!"
And the carpenter looks at him and joyously exclaims, "Pinocchio!"
Take your flute now
I have to constantly remind myself: "please let the heart take the flute and sing my life song".
The days are passing one after another, and if I don't sing my song, it will be just yet another wasted life.
This society is training my mind to fight for success, power, money and my mind listens, it's like a robot now. Tell it to do it and it will do as such. It's dependent on this doing.
While the reality is that, inside me, all I want is peace.
The days are passing one after another, and if I don't sing my song, it will be just yet another wasted life.
This society is training my mind to fight for success, power, money and my mind listens, it's like a robot now. Tell it to do it and it will do as such. It's dependent on this doing.
While the reality is that, inside me, all I want is peace.
Friday, September 25, 2009
Just be!
"How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become - to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being."
Antoine de Saint Exupéry
Antoine de Saint Exupéry
Perfection by simplicity
"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."
Antoine de Saint Exupéry
Antoine de Saint Exupéry
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Be quiet!
“It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.” Mark Twain
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