Saturday, November 2, 2013

OSHO: Love Is Authentic Only When It Gives Freedom

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OSHO: Love Is Authentic Only When It Gives Freedom

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OSHO: Compassion - The Ultimate Flowering of Love

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Efficiency

Disciple:
What do you think of Jesuits and their  work?
Master:
They work very hard and achieve very little.
D: Why?
Master:
Since they are not efficient they need to work very hard to achieve a little.
They are immersed in the institutions and its work.
They do not look for creative ways of becoming efficient today.
With all the good will they end up doing little!


Jesuit priest atLas Vegas

For much of his time as a Catholic priest, the Rev. Max Oliva focused his ministry on what would be considered conventional areas, such as a teaching, poor neighborhoods in Tijuana or a native reservation in the often-frigid plains of the Canadian province of Alberta.
In 2002, however, he changed tack by focusing on the workplace, first seeking to enhance spirituality on the job and then corporate ethics. To this day, he said, people are intrigued by the unusual sight of a priest working in the business sphere instead of at a parish level.
As he marks his 50th anniversary of entering the Jesuit order in the Catholic church from his Las Vegas base, he finds interest in his message.
“I think there is a hunger for something spiritual because this is a very materialistic town,” he said. “Someone told me that fantasy is the base of culture in Las Vegas, but I find a lot of beauty here.”
Oliva is also a regular Las Vegas Business Press columnist.
A native of San Francisco, the 74-year-old Oliva’s family roots were planted deep in business. In fact, he had offers after college from three companies and appeared headed for the food brokerage owned by his father.
While working in traveling sales for a different food company in San Jose, Calif., he decided he wanted to enter the priesthood. Until then, his only contact with the Jesuits had been in high school and college.
That led to a different 50th anniversary, his introduction to Las Vegas. Shortly before he joined the Jesuits on Oct. 10, 1963 — his ordination as a priest came nine years later — his father took him to Las Vegas to catch a few shows, play blackjack for the first time and soak in the city’s attractions.
Oliva came back to live full time in 2011 after a couple of years of commuting between here and San Jose to lay the groundwork for his ministry. Coming here from the area around Calgary, with an economy heavily dependent on oil and gas, required an adjustment.
“There is a different mindset here, a different point of view,” he said. “People here are skeptical of outsiders, of a priest who is not a parish priest.”
Moreover, his attempts to find interest for his work on the Strip have gone nowhere. “The only way I connect is through people who work there and come to see me individually,” he said.
Oliva took up the corporate ministry at a time scandal was the order of the day at places like Enron. In Calgary, he saw “a lot of changes in the people I worked with.” His vehicle there was what he called commuter retreats, where people would meet with him for 45 minutes or so between the office and home.
In Las Vegas, the commuter retreat concept has not caught on. Still, he said, “There are lots of problems here, but also signs of hope, signs of light. I tend to rejoice in small victories and not look for the huge ones.”
Contact reporter Tim O’Reiley at toreiley@reviewjournal or at 702-387-5290.

Friday, November 1, 2013

Ramana Maharshi > Quotes


Ramana Maharshi
Ramana Maharshi > Quotes


Ramana Maharshi quotes (showing 1-15 of 15)

“Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.”
― Ramana Maharshi
“Your duty is to be and not to be this or that. 'I am that I am' sums up the whole truth. The method is summed up in the words 'Be still'. What does stillness mean? It means destroy yourself. Because any form or shape is the cause for trouble. Give up the notion that 'I am so and so'. All that is required to realize the Self is to be still. What can be easier than that?”
― Ramana Maharshi
“Wanting to reform the world without discovering one's true self is like trying to cover the world with leather to avoid the pain of walking on stones and thorns. It is much simpler to wear shoes.”
― Ramana Maharshi
“Have faith in God and in yourself; that will cure all. Hope for the best, expect the best, toil for the best and everything will come right for you in the end.”
― Ramana Maharshi
“Whatever is destined not to happen will not happen, try as you may. Whatever is destined to happen will happen, do what you may to prevent it. This is certain. The best course, therefore, is to remain silent.”
― Ramana Maharshi
“Aim high, aim at the highest, and all lower aims are thereby achieved. It is looking below on the stormy sea of differences that makes you sink. Look up, beyond these and see the One Glorious Real, and you are saved.”
― Ramana Maharshi
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“Know that the eradication of the identification with the body is charity, spiritual austerity and ritual sacrifice; it is virtue, divine union and devotion; it is heaven, wealth, peace and truth; it is grace; it is the state of divine silence; it is the deathless death; it is jnana, renunciation, final liberation and bliss.”
― Ramana Maharshi
“There is neither creation nor destruction,
neither destiny nor free will, neither
path nor achievement.
This is the final truth.”
― Ramana MaharshiSayings of Sri Ramana Maharshi
“The pure mind is itself Brahman; it therefore follows that Brahman is not other than the mind of the sage.”
― Ramana MaharshiTalks with Ramana Maharshi: On Realizing Abiding Peace and Happiness
“If the mind falls asleep, awaken it. Then if it starts wandering, make it quiet. If you reach the state where there is neither sleep nor movement of mind, stay still in that, the natural (real) state.”
― Ramana MaharshiThe Collected Works of Ramana Maharshi
“What is illusion?
M.: To whom is the illusion? Find it out. Then illusion will vanish.
Generally people want to know about illusion and do not examine
to whom it is. It is foolish. Illusion is outside and unknown. But
the seeker is considered to be known and is inside. Find out what
is immediate, intimate, instead of trying to find out what is distant
and unknown.”
― Ramana MaharshiTalks with Ramana Maharshi: On Realizing Abiding Peace and Happiness
“All are gurus to us, the wicked by their evil deeds say 'do not come near me'. the good are always good, therefore all are like gurus to us.”
― Ramana Maharshi
“No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.”
― Ramana Maharshi
“If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.”
― Ramana Maharshi
“Time is only an idea. There is only the Reality Whatever you
think it is, it looks like that. If you call it time, it is time. If you
call it existence, it is existence, and so on. After calling it time, you
divide it into days and nights, months, years, hours, minutes, etc.
Time is immaterial for the Path of Knowledge. But some of these
rules and discipline are good for beginners.”
― Ramana MaharshiTalks with Ramana Maharshi: On Realizing Abiding Peace and Happiness

Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Quotes on Spirituality

“Knock, And He'll open the door
Vanish, And He'll make you shine like the sun
Fall, And He'll raise you to the heavens
Become nothing, And He'll turn you into everything.” 

― Rumi


“Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.” 
― Carl SaganThe Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

“You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.”
― Anne Lamott