The ego is a subtle wall around you. It does not allow anybody to enter into you. You feel protected, secure, but this security is deathlike. It is the security of the plant inside the seed. The plant is afraid to sprout because - who knows? The world is so hazardous and the plant will be so soft, so fragile. Behind the wall of the seed, hiding inside the cell, everything is protected.
RajneeshIf you can grow in love, you will grow in awareness. If you grow in awareness, you will grow in love.
RajneeshBravery does not mean being fearless. It means to be full of fear but still not being dominated by it.
RajneeshIt cannot be called freedom, a freedom which can choose only the right and not the wrong; then that is not freedom.
RajneeshIt is not a question of sitting silently, it is not a question of chanting a mantra. It is a question of understanding the subtle workings of the mind. As you understand those workings of the mind a great awareness arises in you, which is not of the mind. That awareness arises in your being, in your soul, in your consciousness.
Rajneesh