WHISPERS

“When people talk listen completely. Don’t be thinking what you’re going to say. Most people never listen. Nor do they observe. You should be able to go into a room and when you come out know everything that you saw there and not only that. If that room gave you any feeling you should know exactly what it was that gave you that feeling.”

― Ernest Hemingway, Across the River and into the Trees

“Have you ever been in love? Horrible, isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses. You build up this whole armor, for years, so nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life… You give them a piece of you. They don’t ask for it. They do something dumb one day like kiss you, or smile at you, and then your life isn’t your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so a simple phrase like “maybe we should just be friends” or “how very perceptive” turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It’s a soul-hurt, a body-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. Nothing should be able to do that. Especially not love. I hate love.”

― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones

“One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.”

― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“the REAL MASTER CREATES MASTERS, NOT FOLLOWERS”

– OSHO

“OLNY YOUR INNER LIGHT CAN BECOME THE SUNRISE. THE FALSE MASTER PERSUADES YOU TO FOLLOW HIM, TO IMITATE HIM, TO BE JUST A CARBON COPY OF HIM. THE REAL MASTER WILL NOT ALLOW YOU TO BE A CARBON COPY, HE WANTS YOU TO BE THE ORIGINAL. HE LOVES YOU, HOW CAN HE MAKE YOU IMITATIVE? HE HAS COMPASSION FOR YOU, HE WOULD LIKE YOU TO BE UTTERLY FREE FROM ALL OUTER DEPENDENCIES. “

OSHO

TO INFINITY… AND BEYOND…