June 15, 2010

Thoughts for today: Allow yourself to more fully experience and enjoy the present

Allow yourself to more fully experience and enjoy the present.

The quotes and wise words I chose for today's guide are all based on the theme of allowing ourselves to more fully experience and enjoy the present. I know this is a longer post then usual, but as you will see each one helps build upon the next so I wanted to include them all. I genuinely believe that by allowing ourselves to 'live in the moment' we will naturally 'be happier' and only way we can achieve true balance in our lives. There is a saying, "Yesterday is gone and tomorrow never comes, but today is the gift and that is why it's call 'the present'".
You can go on changing the outer for lives and you will never be satisfied; something or other will remain to be changed. Unless the inner changes, the outer can never be perfect.

Intelligence is a natural phenomenon -- just as breathing is, just as seeing is. Intelligence is the inner seeing; it is intuitive. It has nothing to do with intellect. Never confuse intellect with intelligence, they are polar opposites. Intellect is of the head; it is taught by others, it is imposed on you. You have to cultivate it. It is borrowed, it is something foreign, it is not inborn. But intelligence is inborn. It is your very being, your very nature.

The mind exists in time, in fact the mind is time; it exists in the past and the future. And remember, time consists of only two tenses, the past and the future. The present is not part of time, the present is part of eternity.

If the mind wants to comprehend reality, it will have to come out of the past and the future. But coming out of the past and the future, it is no longer the mind at all. Hence the insistence of all the great masters of the world that the door to reality is no-mind.

Any judgment is past oriented, and existence is always herenow, life is always herenow. All judgments are coming from your past experiences, your education, your religion, your parents -- which may be dead, but their judgments are being carried by your mind and they will be given as a heritage to your children. Generation after generation, every disease is being transferred as a heritage. Only a non-judgmental mind has intelligence, because it is spontaneously responding to reality.

Remain in wonder if you want the mysteries to open up for you. Mysteries never open up for those who go on questioning. Questioners sooner or later end up in a library. Questioners sooner or later end up with scriptures, because scriptures are full of answers. And answers are dangerous, they kill your wonder.

Do you think the people who were trying to reach to the Everest were not full of doubts? For a hundred years, how many people tried and how many people have lost their lives? Do you know how many people never came back? Not even their dead bodies came back; they got lost, lost forever. But, still, a few courageous people went on and on..... ...But people went on coming from all over the world, risking, knowing that they may not come back ever, they may be lost. But it is worth it -- because in the very risk something is born inside you: the center. It is born only in the risk. That's the beauty of risk, the gift of risk.

Know the whole world is nothing when it is compared to knowing your own inner mystery of life.
                                                          -- Osho

Don't worry if you don't have time to read them all now, just bookmark the page and you can read it later.
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I hope everyone has a wonderful day!

Peace, Light and Take Care!

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