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... undertaker. "How much to bury my wife?" asks Hamish. "Five hundred pounds," replies Tomb, rubbing his hands together. "Five hundred?" splutters Hamish, clutching his purse. "Can't you do it for less?" "Well," replies Mr Tomb, "the cheapest I can manage is three hundred pounds." "My God!" wails Hamish, counting out his money, "I...
.... Yes-saying is a great, blissful state. Start slowly.... Drop all cautions - cautious people don't live. Those who live are the people who can live in danger. Gamblers live, cautious people don't live - they do business, they don't live. They hoard money but they don't live, they protect themselves but they don't live. If you really want to live you will have to be ready to move into danger. And this...
... anyone has ever known, because she allowed me everything... everything. In India, when the Festival of Lights comes, people may gamble. It is a strange ritual: for three days gambling is legal; after that you can be caught and punished. I told my grandmother, "I want to gamble." She asked me, "How much money do you want?" Even I could not believe my ears. I thought she would say...
... home I told my father, "You never listened to me. You destroyed a beautiful tree and created this ugly hole; and now what use is it? You wasted money in making the well and even you cannot drink the water." He said, "Perhaps once in a while you are right. I realize it, but nothing can be done now." He had to cover that well with stones. It is still there, covered. If you remove a...
... not that one day you renounce. No - you have to renounce every moment. Accumulation is natural. The way things are, one accumulates. If you have lived twenty- four hours, then in twenty-four hours you have accumulated something or other. It may not be money but then it is experience, knowledge. With just the very process of time, you accumulate. A sannyasin is one who goes on renouncing every moment...
.... Remember that love is a grace, and unless one becomes a child again - without armour, without cleverness, without cunningnes - sunless one becomes a child again, available to existence, love cannot happen. And if love does not happen, nothing has happened. One can accumulate money, riches, power, prestige, and all is futile; one remains a wasteland. One simply dies slowly slowly, that's all. Life does...
... a far better position. That will give you consolation and contentment." I had to stop him. I said, "What you are saying is absolutely stupid, because a man who looks down cannot avoid looking up. There are people who are in higher posts, having more money, more power, more prestige. Do you think he has to look continuously towards the blind, the beggars? Mind does not function like that...
... choose from?" "Well," says Olga in a nervous voice, "I think I will choose 'Religion'." "Good!" shouts the emcee. "From the category 'Religion', and for the big money, the question is -- What did Eve say to Adam that fateful night in the garden of Eden?" Olga gets worried and thinks and thinks, but after a few minutes she gives up completely and says, "...
... immediately joined hands with the establishments of other vested interests. He needed power, he needed money, he needed new churches; he needed everything to create a whole religion - and he created it. It is called in the books of history, Nirvano, "The Reformation." In a very ordinary way, it can be called a reformation - nothing much to brag about. What is great in marrying a nun? Is there some...
... present and an opening into the future. It longs for the unknown, for the mysterious. It is not satisfied with the mundane, it is not satisfied with money or power, or prestige. Its longing is for something beyond the ordinary, beyond ambitions, because only beyond ambitions is the land of the lotus paradise. Your Japanese girlfriend has a deeper understanding than you have. In fact, it is a strange...
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