Astrall
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If you want to become someone in this world, you must prove that you are not an ordinary person, but an extraordinary one. But to what end? What purpose does this serve? It serves only one purpose – you gain power, and others become subordinate...
The moment you accept yourself as you are, without any comparison, all superiority and all inferiority disappear.
People judge you, and you accept their opinions without any reflection. You suffer from all sorts of judgments, and you cast these judgments upon other people. This game has gone beyond all limits, and all of humanity suffers from it.
Society creates fear in everyone – the fear of being rejected, the fear of being ridiculed, the fear of losing one's respectability, the fear of what people will say. You have to adapt to the various forms of blindness and unconsciousness of people; you cannot be yourself.
Every individual is unique because there is no one who is like anyone else. One could compare if all people were alike – but they are not. Even twins are not exactly alike. It is impossible to find another person who is exactly like you. So, by comparing unique people, we create all the difficulties.
Great things are happening behind the fence: the grass looks greener, and the roses are more pink. It seems that everyone is happy except you. You continue to compare. The same is true for others; they also compare. Everyone envies someone else…
Because of envy, you constantly suffer and treat others badly. And because of jealousy, you begin to become false, because you begin to pretend. You begin to claim things that you do not have, you begin to claim things that you cannot have, which is unnatural for you. You become more and more artificial. You imitate others, compete with others, and what else is left for you to do?
A jealous person lives in hell; drop comparison, and then jealousy, the feeling of worthlessness, and falseness will also disappear. But you will only be able to drop this if you begin to cultivate your inner treasures, and there is no other way.
A person is fulfilled if he is in harmony with the universe. If he is not in harmony with the universe, then he is empty, completely empty. And from this emptiness comes greed.
There are only two ways to feel fullness within yourself. Either you enter into harmony with the universe... and then you are filled with the whole, all the flowers, all the stars. And this is a real fulfillment. But you cannot do this – millions of people do not do this – and then there remains another way: to fill yourself with any junk. Greed simply means that you experience a deep emptiness and want to fill it with everything possible – it doesn't matter with what.
Osho
The moment you accept yourself as you are, without any comparison, all superiority and all inferiority disappear.
People judge you, and you accept their opinions without any reflection. You suffer from all sorts of judgments, and you cast these judgments upon other people. This game has gone beyond all limits, and all of humanity suffers from it.
Society creates fear in everyone – the fear of being rejected, the fear of being ridiculed, the fear of losing one's respectability, the fear of what people will say. You have to adapt to the various forms of blindness and unconsciousness of people; you cannot be yourself.
Every individual is unique because there is no one who is like anyone else. One could compare if all people were alike – but they are not. Even twins are not exactly alike. It is impossible to find another person who is exactly like you. So, by comparing unique people, we create all the difficulties.
Great things are happening behind the fence: the grass looks greener, and the roses are more pink. It seems that everyone is happy except you. You continue to compare. The same is true for others; they also compare. Everyone envies someone else…
Because of envy, you constantly suffer and treat others badly. And because of jealousy, you begin to become false, because you begin to pretend. You begin to claim things that you do not have, you begin to claim things that you cannot have, which is unnatural for you. You become more and more artificial. You imitate others, compete with others, and what else is left for you to do?
A jealous person lives in hell; drop comparison, and then jealousy, the feeling of worthlessness, and falseness will also disappear. But you will only be able to drop this if you begin to cultivate your inner treasures, and there is no other way.
A person is fulfilled if he is in harmony with the universe. If he is not in harmony with the universe, then he is empty, completely empty. And from this emptiness comes greed.
There are only two ways to feel fullness within yourself. Either you enter into harmony with the universe... and then you are filled with the whole, all the flowers, all the stars. And this is a real fulfillment. But you cannot do this – millions of people do not do this – and then there remains another way: to fill yourself with any junk. Greed simply means that you experience a deep emptiness and want to fill it with everything possible – it doesn't matter with what.
Osho