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... reason to be the leader, because through mind you may become more powerful but you will be less happy. Through mind you may attain much wealth but you will remain poor within. Through mind you may rule thousands of people but you will not be a master like Buddha or Jesus - inside you will remain a slave. This has to be chosen: if you want more power, more money, more prestige, follow reason; if you...
.... You have become like the sky. Another thing. Whatsoever you contemplate, you become like it, you become that, because mind can take infinite forms. Whatsoever you desire, your mind takes its form, you become it. That is why a person who is just after riches, gold, after money, his mind becomes just a treasure - nothing else. Shake him, and you will feel the rupees inside - the sound of rupees...
... cannot be loving. You use love for certain purposes. Your love is just to get something else; it is never simply love. You may be trying to get money, you may be trying to get sex, you may be trying to get something - ego fulfillment, a victory, a feeling that you are very powerful. You may be trying to get anything else, but it is never love. A buddha can be angry if he thinks that it is going to help...
... in reach. Life seems to be very short, and now the object of desires seems to be infinite - there is more impatience and then more disturbance. And with a disturbed mind, how can you meditate? So this is the puzzle. Try to understand it. If you are really frustrated and you have come to feel that all that is outside is futile - money or sex or power or prestige just futile - if you have come to...
... said, 'I would give half of the money to the church.' The priest fell down dead. It was too much. Even happiness will kill you, because you get so involved. You cannot remain out of anything. Suffering or happiness, whatsoever comes to your door, you get so involved in it you are just pushed off your feet. You are no more there. Just a breeze comes in the house and you are no more there. What I am...
.... On the way to the grocers, Albert passes his favorite sweet shop and gets a better idea of what to do with the money. He runs into the candy store and buys sweets. Afterwards, he sneaks back home and hides the chocolates under his bed. Then little Albert puts on a sad face and goes to see his father. "What happened?" asks Zabriski. "Where's the butter?" "The dog," says...
... - oneness. What is the difficulty? Why do we remain outside this Existence? The ego is the difficulty. We are afraid of losing ourselves: that is the only difficulty. And if you are afraid of losing yourself, then you will not be able to know anything in this life. Then you can collect money, then you can strive for higher posts, then you can collect degrees, diplomas, you can become very respectable, but...
... will do. Money will do, power will do, knowledge will do, asceticism will do, virtue will do, love will do - even love! Even the love will be converted into a horse and the ego can ride on it. Love is non-possessive only when it is not of the mind, but Kahlil Gibran knows nothing of the no- mind. Meditation means the state of no-mind. Love should arise in a state of no-mind; you have to prepare the...
... open schools for them. His whole life he had devoted to opening schools, and collecting money and donations from people. Just by accident he came to ask me for donations. I said, "Donation? For what?" He said, "I have been working for almost fifty years in teaching the aboriginals. I open schools - they need books, they need clothes, they need teachers. It is a selfless job. Mahatma...
... hesitation were soon won over thanks to a considerable sum of money. The following day, little William was already traveling the streets of Norwich in the company of the self-proclaimed cook, directly to the dwelling of his aunt Leviva, Godwin Sturt’ s wife, who became informed of the apprenticeship undertaken by the child and his new patron. But the latter individual awakened numerous suspicions in...
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