11 January 2011

91. Pleasure and Happiness

Every teacher teaches according to his own experience. Experience is shaped by belief and belief is shaped by experience.

It is the disciple that makes the Guru great.

Life teaches, where all else fails.

It is enough to have a good look at human faces to perceive the universality of suffering.

Your own happiness is so vulnerable and short-lived… It is just a moment of respite, a mere gap between two sorrows.

Real happiness is not vulnerable, because it does not depend on circumstances.

The world is full of living beings whose lives are squeezed between fear and craving.

Look at yourself fearlessly & you will at once realize that your happiness depends on conditions & circumstances…it is momentary, not real.

Real happiness flows from within.

You are quite satisfied with pleasures. There is no place for happiness. Empty your cup and clean it. It cannot be filled otherwise.

Others can give you pleasure, but never happiness.

There is no East and West in sorrow and fear. The problem is universal—suffering and the ending of suffering.

The cause of suffering is dependence and independence is the remedy.

Yoga is the science and the art of self-liberation through self-understanding.

Liberation is a natural process and in the long run, inevitable. But it is within your power to bring it into the now.

What it means to be natural or normal you do not know, nor do you know that you do not know.

That you are—you know. What you are—you don't know. Find out what you are.

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