Raed Chehaib

“identify yourself with something greater. That desire to identify yourself with something greater is the desire for power. Relationship”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti, The First and Last Freedom

“A rich landlord had a rather spendthrift son who had no value for money. After the landlord’s death, the son spent away all of his father’s fortune. Then realising his relatives would not support him, the son decided to leave the city. What remained of his father’s legacy was one very expensive shawl, which the son used to cover himself with. After suffering unbearable hunger pangs, for the first time he realised he needed to earn his livelihood. He took up work as a labourer. He didn’t even own a pair of sandals so when he received his meagre pay he bought a cheap pair. He put on his sandals and stepped out of the shop. The wet and muddy street instantly covered his new sandals with muck which he began to wipe away using his father’s shawl. A man asked, ‘Are you foolish to clean these cheap sandals with that expensive shawl?’ The son looked up calmly and said, ‘The shawl my father earned. These sandals I earned!”
― R. Palpandian, Siddhas - Masters of Nature

“Where there is action of the self, there is no love. Love is not of time. You cannot practise love. If you do, then it is a self-conscious activity of the ‘me’ which hopes through loving to gain a result. Love is not of time; you cannot come upon it through any conscious effort, through any discipline, through identification, which is all of the process of time. The mind, knowing only the process of time, cannot recognize love. Love is the only thing that is eternally new. Since most of us have cultivated the mind, which is the result of time, we do not know what love is. We talk about love; we say we love people, that we love our children, our wife, our neighbour, that we love nature; but the moment we are conscious that we love, self-activity has come into being; therefore it ceases to be love. This”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti, The First and Last Freedom

“but once we understand the non-existence nature of our conceptual world, it drops. Out emerges our inherent potential to live in our hollowness, but this time our hollowness opens a doorway to the existence of flowing life; a self-unfolding flow of life. It is the door to the dimensionless existentially flowing life.”
― R. Palpandian, Siddhas - Masters of Nature