Spiritual & Philosophical wisdom

Paint a pretty smile each day realize that loving is a blessing, that you should never let fade away

 

The forest was shrinking, but the trees kept voting for the Axe, for the Axe was clever and convinced the Trees that because his handle was made of wood, he was one of them.'' -- Turkish proverb

What do you think this means...anyone?

 

the trees never realized that they were being betrayed by ONE OF THEIR OWN

 

Woah, that’s deep. I really like that.

 

is there a right and wrong answer?
how does one get to be the teacher's pet?

is that answer way off base?

 

Probably not. It’s philosophy, after all.

By being perfect.

No, I can see what you’re saying, it makes sense.

 

they (the trees) saw a friend but in the end, the friend was the catalyst of their demise

 

Gotcha. Thanks

 

was does the saying
Mean TO YOU?

your thoughts please

 

is being the teacher's pet attainable?

 

Honestly, I had no clue with that one.

You seem like the “teacher,” today

 

maybe a roll reversal is needed???

 

“Some people pursue unhappiness because happiness is too mild a sensation.” - Coco Chanel


Do you know the ego feels its existence in negativity and in positivity the ego doesn't feel so strongly? The ego pulls the mind back to negativity to feel its existence. Go back to your past: how many bad events of life do you remember and how many good events? You will find 90% are bad and more clear. 10% are good but like in a fog. This is the great power of our ego. - Baba Hari Dass


In good things, the ego doesn't feel its strength of individuality as strongly as in doing bad things. If you do bad things, the ego is right there in the present. Then its memory which repeats in the past. Then its imagination of doing bad things in the future appears. If we look back in our own life, what do we remember the most? All bad things we did or people did to us. Memories of good things appear as if veiled by fog. - Baba Hari Dass


“Misery makes you special. Misery makes you more egoistic. A miserable man can have a more concentrated ego than a happy man. A happy man really cannot have the ego, because a person becomes happy only when there is no ego. The more egoless, the more happy; the more happy, the more egoless. You dissolve into happiness. You cannot exist together with happiness;you exist only when there is misery. In happiness there is dissolution.” - Osho

 

"The order of the notes does not determine the sound of the music." Jan Ringdu
"The music speaks for itself." Jimi Hendrix
"When searching deep, never forget that there is a surface." Old Indian Proverb

 

obviously the politics of fascism in the u.s., appealing to the under represented poor and even the minorities it despises while at the same time continuing to undermine them.
no surprise this comes from turkey with dictator erdujan. but applies equally well to "austarity" movements everywhere. the "enlightened" west, the u.s. included, being no exception.

it also applies directly to the environment, energy, transportation and population policy.

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and on a slightly separate note, any "heaven" without universally mutual consideration, no matter how powerful or wise its god or gods, is just another name for hell.

 

It means what comes around goes around in this neck of the woods, and its better to be a tool than a fool.

 

“The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers. ~ Carl Jung


A man who is in mental anguish wants to torture others. One who suffers wants to share his suffering with others. A man can only share what he possesses. It is impossible to live without sharing what you have. Flowers share their fragrance because fragrance is what they are; stars share their light because they are light themselves. A man shares his suffering if suffering is what he is.

But man can also share joy, because man can also become joy. And religion is the road to unimaginable joy. Religion is awareness of the Self, and one who is aware of his Self finds there is not shallowness in him at all. He is filled with unfathomable joy, because now nothing remains to be achieved. In the Self, one finds that whatever is worth achieving is already there. ~ Osho


And enjoying hurting others is not the right thing. It is simply you wanting attention, that is all. This you need to correct. This is your mind’s sickness. It is the sickness of your own mind to be happy making someone miserable. What do you call it? Sadistic! How can enjoying someone’s suffering make you happy? That type of joy is not for you, no! It appears to be a joy momentarily but it comes back to you a million times more, so don’t go for it. There are better ways of joy. When you forgive, see what big joy, what big comfort it brings to you. - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar


Mind is madness. Only when you go beyond the mind there will be meditation. - Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev