Category: Spiritual Writings

Relationship Exists Only Between Equal People – Osho

“Up to now, men and women have not been living in relationship – because woman has never been thought equal. And relationship exists only between equal people; it cannot happen between unequal people. Unless woman is given total freedom, absolute equality, there will be no possibility to relate. Up to now, man has exploited woman, woman has exploited man; there has not been real relationship.
It cannot be, because the way man has treated woman has been basically wrong.

Only between two equal persons is there a possibility of relationship, because fear is not there – one can be open, one can be true, one can be honest. Only between two equal persons, when there is no fear, is there love. Love arises when fear has left you. When fear is there, love cannot enter: they are never together.”

The Power Of Thanksgiving

“The Thanksgiving Holiday is important because it calls us to a higher Consciousness. It reminds us of the Creative Force of Gratitude. 

Of course, we awaken to this creative force in different ways. Sometimes we awaken to gratitude when we are overjoyed at the abundance of our lives and are thankful. Just as often it arises when we face a life problem so large that afterward, when we find a solution, we realize we were helped in life… and find a larger experience of gratefulness.

We can also discover our gratitude at times of heightened nostalgia for the past, especially on the day of the Thanksgiving holiday itself. We think back to all the loved ones and others who helped us in our youth—sharing their wisdom, rescuing us from our lostness…just with the way they lived.

Poignantly, some of these people aren’t with us anymore. And we deeply feel the loss again. We shed a tear, longing again for their presence…and discover our gratefulness that they lived.

And then there are the dreams and projects that our souls yearn to manifest in the world. We ponder and refine them. We sense help and ask for it…and when they begin to unfold, one Synchronicity at a time, we are repeatedly grateful, and realize this gratefulness was a part of the flow.

It is at such times that we can pop into a full realization of gratitude as a creative power. It becomes a fixture of our consciousness as we prove to ourselves how it works. It is the engine behind every prayer, every project, every dream we have of making the world better.

How? Because Gratitude establishes a faith-beam behind all our vision. It establishes the power of belief and intention in all our positive creative endeavors. And it happens because we remember to be grateful for these manifestations in advance, even before they have occurred.

In this way, we consciously set not only a prayerful intention for a goal, but a faithful feeling of gratefulness for its occurrence as well.

Gratitude can then live in our hearts along side our love. And its power only grows when felt together in larger groups of people. Together, we can amplify this power even more, enlarging our single contributions into one vision of enlightening the world…

All we have to do is remember to use this gift.

And if we forget…well…the Thanksgiving Holiday can remind us.”

James Redfield, www.celestinevision.com

On The Path To Enlightenment

❝On the path to enlightenment, the single most important step is the step away from ego; the person you’ve been told to be; the image given to you by your parents, teachers and society.

You may walk alone, but the more you dis-identify with this program, the more free you will be and the stronger the light of consciousness grows within you. Keep going.❞

By Ryan Elliott

Be Fearless

“With one sentence, he shattered the steel wall that had protected her for years:

‘Your heart will always be safe with me.’ His low voice melted like honey in her ear.

Her body trembled and quaked as the wall came crashing…

And every word that she had ever held back;

Every intimate gesture
She had forced herself
To kill in its tracks–

Began to come forward as
Her Love generously spilled
Onto his patient heart.

When we allow
Fear of heartbreak to
Keep us in lock-down,

We are choosing to
Settle for
Less life,
Less joy,
Less passion,
Less feeling.

As deep as we allow
Ourselves to be
Vulnerable
Is as deep as we’ll
Be able to receive
And genuinely give Love.

I choose to Love
Heart Wide Open–

Reciprocated,
I know how to soothe
A weary heart–

I know how to
Delve deeper into my own
Heart and Love her back to
Wholeness again.

Today, I choose to risk the
Experience of rejection–

I choose Life
I choose Passion
I choose LOVE!

Call on your Soul’s
Grandest courage
And gift your Heart
With the chance to
SOUL-FULLY
Love & be Loved.
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Janene Cummings
Divine Nurturer (YouTube)