Osho

Osho

“Nobody can say anything about you. Whatsoever people say is about themselves. But you become very shaky, because you are still clinging to a false center. That false center depends on others, so you are always looking to what people are saying about you. And you are always following other people, you are always trying to satisfy them. You are always trying to be respectable, you are always trying to decorate your ego. This is suicidal. Rather than being disturbed by what others say, you should start looking inside yourself…

Whenever you are self-conscious you are simply showing that you are not conscious of the self at all. You don’t know who you are. If you had known, then there would have been no problem— then you are not seeking opinions. Then you are not worried what others say about you— it is irrelevant!When you are self-conscious you are in trouble. When you are self-conscious you are really showing symptoms that you don’t know who you are. Your very self-consciousness indicates that you have not come home yet.”
― Osho

The world is our canvas. Let’s paint a new future!

The world is our canvas. Let's paint a new future!

“In a world where the agenda is to mold everyone to be the same, to have the same dreams of striving to be “someone” or “successful”, to be educated with the same information, to look the same, to think the same, to fit under certain belief systems and categorizations, and to follow a path laid out for us since the day we’re born, a path handed down by “authority” and past generations, a path so engrained and so supported by fear of change where if you question it or don’t conform to it you’re seen as radical, crazy, rebellious etc, the most powerful and serving thing we can do at this time is to truly be ourselves. Do what our heart desires. Speak honesty and truth. Every single person on this planet wants to live in freedom and wants peace in their life no matter what is said or done in any situation. You can be an “elitist” trying to manipulate the entire world or you can be a monk in the Himalayas. Deep down we’re all searching for the same thing and we all want out of this and it’s being felt more and more. To get there we have to look at ourselves and human society. We have to look at it without judgement or attachment and feel if it’s something we want to continue to experience.

We can choose to uncreate it and create something new if we truly want to. A whole new world is waiting to be created as we are infinite potentiality and limitless creators! We’re just playing a game here and can change the game whenever we make the choice to do so. Recognizing this power will bring about a feeling of wholeness and peace within ourselves that can truly change the world. It will propel us to move forward. If we’re not experiencing this peace and are still limited and driven by our minds, we will carry that into the future and create an unpeaceful and separated world all over again. We have to truly be willing to change and be examples of a new experience living in a higher consciousness. The world is our canvas, let’s paint a new future!”
~Matthew Peter Christodoulou

“One of the biggest problems with the world today is that we have large groups of people who will accept whatever they hear on the grapevine, just because it suits their worldview—not because it is actually true or because they have evidence to support it. The really striking thing is that it would not take much effort to establish validity in most of these cases… but people prefer reassurance to research.” ~Neil deGrasse Tyson

“One of the biggest problems with the world today is that we have large groups of people who will accept whatever they hear on the grapevine, just because it suits their worldview—not because it is actually true or because they have evidence to support it. The really striking thing is that it would not take much effort to establish validity in most of these cases… but people prefer reassurance to research.” ~Neil deGrasse Tyson

Artist ~ Daniel Bolstad

Return to the root of your soul.

“For ages you have come and gone
courting this delusion.
For ages you have run from the pain
and forfeited the ecstasy.
So come, return to the root of the root
of your own soul.

Although you appear in earthly form
Your essence is pure Consciousness.
You are the fearless guardian
of Divine Light.
So come, return to the root of the root
of your own soul.

When you lose all sense of self
the bonds of a thousand chains will vanish.
Lose yourself completely,
Return to the root of the root
of your own soul.” ~Rumi

Artist – unknown (does anyone know this artist?)

Free your mind.

frontier

“This I believe: That the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.”

~John Steinbeck