Name: Πυθαγορας ο Σαμιος (Pythagoras of Samos)
Born: ~ 570 BCE
Died: ~ 495 BCE
“When one of the great Greek philosophers, Pythagoras, reached Egypt to enter a school – a secret esoteric school of mysticism – he was refused. And Pythagoras was one of the best minds ever produced. He could not understand it. He applied again and again, but he was told that unless he goes through a particular training of fasting and breathing he cannot be allowed to enter the school. Continue reading
Death may not come. Death cannot come to people who live very intensely and very totally. … Continue reading
One thing has to be remembered about meditation: it is a long journey, and there is no shortcut. Anyone who says there is a short cut is befooling you.
Meditation is a long journey because the change is very deep and s achieved after many lives, many lives of routine habits, thinking desiring, and the mind structure. Those you have to drop through meditation. In fact, it is almost impossible but it happens. Continue reading
The moment you are illuminated, the whole of existence is illuminated.
If you are in the dark, then the whole of existence is dark. It all depends on you. Continue reading
“Wherever you find that society is in conflict with nature, choose nature—whatever the cost. You will never be a loser. Continue reading
Whenever you feel happy, you were not looking for it. That is the first basic thing about happiness: it happened when you were looking for something else. Continue reading
The seed cannot know what is going to happen, the seed has never known the flower. And the seed cannot even believe that he has the potentiality to become a beautiful flower. Long is the journey, and it is always safer not to go on that journey because unknown is the path, nothing is guaranteed. Continue reading
“I’m simply saying that there is a way to be sane. I’m saying that you can
get rid of all this insanity created by the past in you. Just by being a simple
witness of your thought processes. Continue reading
Laughter brings some energy from your inner source to your surface. Energy starts flowing, follows laughter like a shadow. Have you watched it? When you really laugh, for those few moments you are in a deep meditative state. Thinking stops. It is impossible to laugh and think together. They are diametrically opposite: either you can laugh or you can think. If you really laugh, thinking stops. If you are still thinking, laughter will be just so-so, it will be just so-so, lagging behind. It will be a crippled laughter. Continue reading
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