Osho - be true to yourself, be authentic

Mar 17 aft

Maturity
Renounce the artificial.
Be true, be authentic. Sometimes it will be very painful to be true and to be authentic, it is not cheap. To be untrue and inauthentic is cheap, convenient, comfortable.
It is a trick, a strategy to protect yourself; it is an armour. But u will miss the truth that u have been carrying in ur soul.

Soul
Yes.
Me going back is a farce. At least that much I can be honest with myself. And I know that the moment I said yes, the next I be crying inside.

Maturity
Unless u can express ur rage, u will never know how to express ur love. A man who cannot get angry cannot be loving either because he has repress his anger so much that he becomes incapable of expressing anything else - because all things are joined together inside ur being, they are not separate.
Either be expressive or repressive, the choice is yours.

Soul
Yes, I can see now I faced my issue with Isha again. There is no logical reason why I m saying no except that I don't like to do it. I also know that I will feel loss in the beginning. But that's the risk I need to take to be true to myself. I m just different from most others. That's why I invested much time and money into my spiritual practices; cos I know that gives me growth.

Actually saying no gives me growth too. Let me live fearlessly in every aspect of my life.

Maturity
A disciplined man is one who goes on learning through life experiences, who goes into everything, unafraid - who risks, who explores and adventures, who is always ready to go into the known and who is always ready to commit mistakes, who is always ready to fall in a ditch and who is always ready to be laughed at by others.
Only people who are courageous enough to be called as fools are able to live and love and know and be.
Maturity comes through more and more, deeper and deeper experiences of life, not by avoiding life.

Soul
Amen. Give me the courage.
Great that at least now i don't take my mind seriously.

Maturity
When you have ninety nine percent awareness, there is only one percent thought, because it is the same energy.
As u become hundred percent aware, the mind becomes absolutely silent. That is the time to move still deeper.

The third step is to become aware of feelings, moods, emotions.
In another word, first the body; second the mind -  its activity; third, the heart and its functions.

When u move to the heart, and bring ur awareness there, again a new surprise. All that is good grows and all that is bad starts disappearing. Love grows, hate disappears. Sharing grows, greed disappear.
When ur awareness of the heart is complete, the last and the greatest surprise: u don't have to take any step. A quantum leap happens on its own accord. From the heart, u suddenly find urself in ur being, at the very center.