“I know you are not beyond pettiness, beyond jealousy, beyond greed, beyond anger. But I don’t talk about going beyond them for the simple reason that if you start struggling with your pettiness you will remain petty; if you start struggling against your jealousy, you will remain jealous.
An ancient proverb is:”Always choose the enemy carefully”— because you will be fighting with him, and in fighting you will become just like the enemy because you will have to use the same methods, the same means.
Enemies are very precious.
I don’t want you to fight with small things. Rather than looking down at the earth, and all around is your pettiness and jealousy and anger, my effort is to show you the stars and help you to know that you have wings. And once you start moving towards the stars, those small things will disappear on their own accord. “
“Whenever you understand that you have missed life, the first principle to be brought back is innocence. Drop your knowledge, forget your scriptures, forget your religions, your theologies, your philosophies.
Be born again, become innocent — and it is in your hands. Clean your mind of all that is not known by you, of all that is borrowed, all that has come from tradition, convention, all that has been given to you by others —parents, teachers, universities. Just get rid of it.
Once again be simple, once again be a child.
By OSHO(courtesy Kashyap) :)
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