Category: Spiritual Writings

“She dips her brush into the paint,
The canvas holds her dreams,
And with each stroke, the image forms
With grace and ease, it seems.

The colours on the pallette mix
Each swirl unique in time,
Placed on the canvas, perfect hue’s
Reflecting what’s inside.

With each new stroke, the image grows
From heartspace through her hand,
Her life in colour through God’s eyes
On canvas, dreams expand.

When standing back to view her work
The colours merge to white,
She looks upon the finished piece,
Reflection of her Light.”

By Denise Anderson

“Whoever told you that the bamboo is more beautiful than the oak, or the oak more valuable than the bamboo?  Do you think the oak wishes it had a hollow trunk like this bamboo?

Does the bamboo feel jealous of the oak because it is bigger and its leaves change color in the fall?  The very idea of the two trees comparing themselves to each other seems ridiculous, but we humans seem to find this habit very hard to break.

Let’s face it, there is always going to be somebody who is more beautiful, more talented, stronger, more intelligent, or apparently happier than you are.  And conversely, there will always be those who are less than you in all these ways.  The way to find out who you are is not be comparing yourself with others, but by looking to see whether you are fulfilling your own potential in the best way you know how.” Osho Zen Tarot Cards, Ma Deva Padma

Osho Says –  “Comparison brings inferiority, superiority.  When you don’t compare, all inferiority, all superiority, disappear.  Then you are, you are simply there.  A small bush or a big high tree — it doesn’t matter; you are yourself.  You are needed.  A grass leaf is needed as much as the biggest star.  Without the grass leaf, God will be less than He is.  This sound of the cuckoo is needed as much as any Buddha; the world will be less, will be less rich if this cuckoo disappears.

Just look around.  All is needed, and everything fits together.  It is an organic unity: nobody is higher and nobody is lower, nobody superior, nobody inferior.  Everybody is incomparably unique.”

Osho, The Sun Rises In The Evening, Chapter 4.

“In my experience, a greater problem than that of learning an awareness of others’ boundaries and when and how to respect them, is the problem of choosing and setting our own boundaries.  When I was still in the practice of psychotherapy, it seemed to me that at least half my patients had what I came to call drawbridge problems.

I would say to them, “All of us live in a castle. Around the castle there is a moat, and over the moat there is a drawbridge which we can lower open or raise shut, depending on our will.” The problem was that my patients’ drawbridges did not work very well. Either they were laid open all the time so that virtually anyone and everyone could amble into their personal space, prowl around, stay as long as they liked, and do whatever harm they would– or else their drawbridges were raised shut and stuck so that nobody and nothing could penetrate their isolated solitude. Neither case was benign.

These patients lacked freedom and the flexible response systems that are such a dramatic characteristic of mental health.  For instance, I knew a woman who would sleep with every man she dated, which left her feeling so degraded that she would then cease dating altogether.  It was a veritable revelation for her to learn that there are some men you don’t want to let in through

your front door, some you might want to let in through your front door and into your living room but not into your bedroom, and some you might want to let into your bedroom.  She had never considered that there might be– might need to be–at least three different ways to respond to different men in any given situation. Nor had she perceived that she had the power to make such discriminating choices, to draw a line to establish and protect her boundaries.”

M. Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled and Beyond, p. 189-190.

“The reason for desires, goals…for finding those decisions or points of focus, is because they are the life-giving things of the Universe. Without objects of attention, or objects of desire, the Life Force does not come through any of us.”

Abraham-Hicks, 4/19/97