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“The trouble is, you think you have time.”
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“Kill not, cause no pain. Nonviolence is the greatest religion.”
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“Socrates would ask penetrating questions, analyzing everything, and everybody in Athens became angry. This man was trying to prove that everybody is a fool. They killed him. Had he met Chuang Tzu – and at that time Chuang Tzu was alive in China, they were contemporaries – then Chuang Tzu would have told him the secret: “Don’t try to prove that anybody is foolish because fools don’t like this. Don’t try to prove to a madman that he is mad, because no madman likes it. He will get angry, arrogant, aggressive. He will kill you if you prove too much. If you come to the point where it can be proved, he will take revenge.” Chuang Tzu would have said, “It is better to be foolish yourself, then people enjoy you, and then by a very subtle methodology you can help them change. Then they are not against you.” That’s”
― The Empty Boat: Encounters with Nothingness
― The Empty Boat: Encounters with Nothingness
“იცოდი, რომ ღამის ცა წითელ წიგნშია შესატანი?”
― საღეჭი განთიადები: Sugar Free
― საღეჭი განთიადები: Sugar Free
“Sadness gives depth. Happiness gives height. Sadness gives roots. Happiness gives branches. Happiness is like a tree going into the sky, and sadness is like the roots going down into the womb of the earth. Both are needed, and the higher a tree goes, the deeper it goes, simultaneously. The bigger the tree, the bigger will be its roots. In fact, it is always in proportion. That's its balance.”
― Everyday Osho: 365 Daily Meditations for the Here and Now
― Everyday Osho: 365 Daily Meditations for the Here and Now
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