Falling in love....are you ?

Infact a mature person does not fall in love, he rises in love.The word ’fall’ is not right.Only immature people fall; they stumble and fall down in love.Somehow they were managing and standing. They cannot manage and they cannot stand – they find a woman and they are gone, they find a man and they are gone. They were always ready to fall on the ground and to creep. They don’t have the backbone, the spine; they don’t have that integrity to stand alone.
A mature person has the integrity to be alone. And when a mature person gives love, he gives without any strings attached to it: he simply gives. And when a mature person gives love, he feels grateful that you have accepted his love, not vice versa. He does not expect you to be thankful for it~no,not at all, he does not even need your thanks.He thanks you for accepting his love.And when two mature persons are in love, one of the greatest paradoxes of life happens,one of the most beautiful phenomena: they are together and yet tremendously alone; they are together so much so that they are almost one.But their oneness does not destroy their individuality, in fact, it enhances it: they become more individual.Two mature persons in love help each other to become more free.There is no politics involved, no diplomacy, no effort to dominate.How can you dominate the person you love? Just think over it. Domination is a sort of hatred, anger, enmity.How can you think of dominating a person you love?You would love to see the person totally free, independent;you will give him more individuality. That’s why I call it the greatest paradox: they are together so much so that they are almost one, but still in that oneness they are individuals. Their individualities are not effaced~they have become more enhanced.The other has enriched them as far as their freedom is concerned.Immature people falling in love destroy each other’s freedom, create a bondage, make a prison.Mature persons in love help each other to be free; they help each other to destroy all sorts of bondages.And when love flows with freedom there is beauty. When love flows with dependence there is ugliness.

~Osho~

The beauty and mysticism of the lotus flower

The lotus flower is held sacred, and one of the most revered spiritual symbols by many cultures and people throughout the world. Of the many things this beautifully fragrant flower represents, rebirth and purity are perhaps the two most powerful symbols of it. This is because the lotus rises from muddy waters and blooms as a brilliantly pure  flower. The lotus is also thought of as a symbol of human consciousness on the path to spiritual enlightenment.In Hinduism, the unfolding lotus flower petals is suggestive of the awakening of the soul, like the symbolism in Buddhist tradition, the lotus flower rising from the mud denotes spiritual expansion and personal growth.The seven major energy centers located within a person’s body are also represented by a lotus flower, each with a specific number of lotus petals for each individual chakra.Each lotus petal of the chakra can be thought of as opening and “blooming” along with a person’s energy,as each chakra becomes activated when we begin to raise our consciousness and touch upon our own divinity and strive to be pure,as we work through our own limitations until we discover...

Enlightenment ....

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Whenever you should doubt your self-worth, remember the lotus flower. Even though it plunges to life from beneath the mud, it does not allow the dirt that surrounds it to affect its growth or beauty.

~Suzy Kassem~

I am blooming from the wound where I once bled.”....

“The lotus is the most beautiful flower, whose petals open one by one. But it will only grow in the mud. In order to grow and gain wisdom, first you must have the mud — the obstacles of life and its suffering. … The mud speaks of the common ground that humans share, no matter what our stations in life. … Whether we have it all or we have nothing, we are all faced with the same obstacles: sadness, loss, illness, dying and death. If we are to strive as human beings to gain more wisdom, more kindness and more compassion, we must have the intention to grow as a lotus and open each petal one by one. ” 
~ Goldie Hawn ~

Like the lotus flower that is born out of mud, we must honor the darkest parts of ourselves and the most painful of our life’s experiences, because they are what allow us to birth our most beautiful self.

               ~Debbie Ford~

The lotus is a reminder that in a word riddled with fear,we can stay loving inside and, one by one, open our petals to spread that peace into the worl

A person should live like the lotus, being in the world but not affected by it. You should always express your natural beauty, though you may grow in a dirty place. Nothing from outside should affect you

The lotus flower turns its head towards the sun always. That means it always turns towards the light; it receives the light constantly. So  let us strive to be like this

ever-enlightened flower.