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... money and beat it." "Shut up, and mind your own business," said a little old lady from the back. "The big fellow knows what he is doing." Language is a very fragile instrument, but it works as far as ordinary life is concerned. It is utilitarian, but the moment you start moving towards the non-utilitarian existence, language starts failing you. For example, in poetry language...
... money, power, prestige, et cetera - all become concentrated on a single desire, the desire for enlightenment. It imprisons more than any other desire because aU other desires are divided: there are many millions of desires, and your energy is fragmented. But the desire for enlightenment, your whole energy pours into it. It is the thickest and the strongest chain that keeps you imprisoned, and it is...
... fridge? How to eat more? His whole imagination becomes focused on food, he dreams of food. A famous Sufi story says: Three persons were travelling. They purchased a Sufi sweet, halvah. But they had not enough money and the halvah was very costly. It was not enough for three, so there was great debate - who should eat it? They decided 'We should do one thing: we all should sleep, and in the morning...
... animal. "No, sir!" said Morrissey. "I have had him since he was a pup." "I'll make it a hundred dollars!" said the bartender. Morrissey shook his head. When the offer went to five hundred dollars the ventriloquist grabbed the money and headed for the door. "Alright," he added, "take good care of him." And with a last look at the dog, "Farewell, old...
... whole universe nobody has gone insane. You go on working even though there is no need to work - keep busy, without any business, otherwise somebody will point out to you, "What are you doing?" And you don't have the courage to say, "I am just being." People will laugh and they will suggest, "Do something, just being will not help. Get a job! Earn money." But a fish will...
... are borrowing blindness. It is not yours. Even darkness of one's own;s good. One's own errors are better than other people's virtues, remember this - because the mind is always tempted to imitate, to borrow. But that which is significant cannot be borrowed. No, you cannot enter the kingdom of God with borrowed money; there is no way. You cannot bribe the guards because there are no guards and you...
... thing is falling apart!" Milton Trueheart is driving along in his Rolls Royce when he sees his old school friend, Etta Apple. He pulls over, lowers the electric window and says, "Hi, Etta! How are you?" "Wow!" says Etta, "is that you, Milton? And in a Rolls Royce? How did you make so much money?" "I am a fortune teller," replies Milton. "I can see the...
..., "This is your photograph! You are wasting money and we are starving." So he simply went upstairs and tried to hide it in a suitcase full of clothes. The wife had come just behind him without making any noise of footsteps. She was watching, she knew where it had been kept. She went away, and Mulla Nasruddin was not aware of her. When he went out she immediately opened the suitcase. She looked...
... puzzled. These five hundred women were not only the Nizam's own wives; in these five hundred women his father's wives - except his own mother - were also included. His grandfather's wives who were still alive were also included. They came as heritage. Woman has been reduced into a commodity. Just like money and palaces and furniture and diamonds, she also comes as a heritage. So the Nizam was having...
... needed for his work. As though that was all he had been waiting for, he opened his case and handed me a statement which included all the desires of the heart: money, means of existence, even cigarettes, but none of the things which were necessary to an inventor of such a machine. He asked for a period of six months in which to carry it all through. I felt a strong desire to kick him out, and was sure...
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