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purplebuddhaproject:

“You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh
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alittlebitoftruthcan:

“Have you noticed a fact—if you try to remember backwards, how far can you remember? When you were four years old or three years old? More than that, you cannot go back. But when you were three years old, you were perfectly conscious. You were enjoying more than you will ever enjoy life. Everything was beautiful; small colored stones, sea shells on the beach were treasures. The reason why you cannot remember backwards to the time when you were born is that in those three years you were simple—so simple that you had not even gathered memory. There was no need. You were just like a mirror—you reflected, enjoyed the moment, but you never collected. You were not greedy. Your ego had not come yet into being. It takes, for the society to bring the ego, at least three years in women and four years in men. I have been always puzzled: why three years in women and four years in men? It is because women are more self-conscious. Mulla Nasruddin was trying hard for two hours to catch two flies. Finally, he got them and he told his wife: ‘I have caught them. One is male, one is female.’ The wife said, ‘My God! How did you figure out who is male and who is female?’ He said, ‘Very simple. The female has been sitting continuously for two hours on the mirror, and the male was reading the newspaper for two hours. It was not difficult to find out who is who.’ The woman is more body-oriented… becomes aware of her beauty, becomes aware that others are also aware of her beauty. That’s why the ego is created one year earlier. The woman is more confined to herself. The man looks around the world, forgetting himself completely; hence, it takes a little more time. But once the male ego is there, it is stronger, more poisonous than the female ego. Because the female ego is fragile—it depends only on her beautiful eyes, her beautiful hair, the beautiful proportions of her body. Its claims are not very big. But when the man claims, he becomes Alexander the Great, Napoleon Bonaparte, Ivan the Terrible. His scope of the ego is the whole world. When the first group of mountain climbers, early in the century, tried to climb the highest peak of the Himalayas—Gourishankar, known to the world as Everest—they were asked: ‘Why are you putting your life in unnecessary danger?’ Because there is nothing to be found… eternal snow, which has never melted. And the leader replied, ‘It is not a question of finding anything there on the Everest. The question is that it is there, unclimbed, and it hurts our egos.’ Strange—the poor Everest is not doing anything to you. Almost hundreds of people have died in climbing Everest, for a simple reason—because it is there. It cannot remain unclimbed, man has to defeat it. What is there on the moon? But it is there, this is the difficulty. What is there on Mars? It is there. And those millions of stars are there. Man’s ego has no limits. It is vast and it goes on growing. The woman is satisfied with beautiful clothes, ornaments, a beautiful, small garden, a swimming pool—she does not ask much. And by the way, this is the reason no woman has been able to become a Gautam Buddha. You will be surprised. What can be the connection in it? To become a Gautam Buddha, you need a very big ego, so big that it becomes a mountainous burden on you. You have to get rid of it; otherwise it will kill you. But the woman’s ego is so small, it never becomes a mountainous burden. There is no need to fight with it, to drop it. This is the reason why women have not been able to reach higher peaks of consciousness. They are easily satisfied with small things. Man knows no satisfaction, and this dissatisfaction becomes so troublesome, so painful, that he has to find a way out of it.”

— Osho (Sermons in Stones)

dailynietzsche:

“Within the mecahnistic view of the world, which is logic and its application to space and time, one must emphasize again and again that nothing is ever comprehended, but rather designed and distorted.”

—F. Nietzsche, The Will to Power, §554 (edited excerpt).