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The saddest thing to happen to a human being is to live as an ego because the ego is not programmed for happiness; it is programmed for misery, hence the suffering on the planet.
“man is the only animal who can assimilate the past. Once the past is assimilated you are free from it. You can move in freedom and you can use your past. Otherwise you will have to pass through so many experiences; your life will be wasted.”
― Freedom: The Courage to Be Yourself
― Freedom: The Courage to Be Yourself
“A larva is static: it knows no movement, it remains stuck at one space, at one place, at one stage. Very few people grow into caterpillars. The caterpillar starts moving; dynamism enters. The larva is static; the caterpillar moves. With movement life is stirred. Again, many remain caterpillars: they go on moving horizontally, on the same plane, in one dimension. Rarely, a man like Buddha—or Jalaluddin Rumi or Jesus or Kabir—takes the final quantum leap and becomes a butterfly. Then the vertical enters in.”
― Freedom: The Courage to Be Yourself
― Freedom: The Courage to Be Yourself
“The state of the camel is the state of assimilation. The camel does not know how to say no. The camel is not acquainted with the no. He has not heard the word and he has not tasted the joys of saying no. He only knows yes. His yes cannot be very deep, because without knowing “no” your yes cannot be very deep; it has to remain superficial. The man who has not known no, how can he really know yes? His yes will be impotent. The camel’s yes is impotent. The camel does not know what is happening; he only goes on saying yes because that is the only word that he has been taught.”
― Freedom: The Courage to Be Yourself
― Freedom: The Courage to Be Yourself
“Truth is realized through three states: assimilation, independence, and creativity. Remember these three words, they are very seminal. Assimilation—that is the function of the larva.”
― Freedom: The Courage to Be Yourself
― Freedom: The Courage to Be Yourself
“Independence enters only through the door of no; through the door of yes, only dependence. So in this stage of the camel, there is dependence, helplessness. The other is more important than your own being: God is more important, father is more important, mother is more important, society is more important, the priest is more important, the politician is more important. Except you, everybody is important; the other is important, you are still not there. It is a very unconscious state.”
― Freedom: The Courage to Be Yourself
― Freedom: The Courage to Be Yourself
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