Love Yourself

This was in my morning devotional reading and I could not keep it to myself. Osho says:

You will feel the most significant experience, you will become ecstatic if you can feel that the whole existence needs you, that you will be missed, that if you are not here there will be a gap, you will be missed. You are not unnecessary, you are not superfluous; you have tremendous significance.

Hence, love yourself. You are needed as much as the trees, as the flowers, as the birds, as the sun, as the moon, as the stars. You have to be here and you have a right to be the way you are.

Stories/Parables/Koans: The Wound (part 2)

Today’s Parable comes from an “an African-American employee of [advertising agency] Wieden + Kennedy.” A more complete background behind these words can be found Here.

 

 

This slideshow requires JavaScript.

“What was it like
when you realized your brothers were
jealous and what they planned to do?”

“I felt like a lion with a chain around
its neck. Not degraded by the chain, and
not complaining, but just waiting for my
power to be recognized.”

“How about down in the well, and in
prison? How was it then?”

“Like the moon when it’s getting
smaller, yet knowing the fullness to
come. Like a seed pearl ground in the
mortar for medicine, that knows it will
now be the light of the human eye.

Like a wheat grain that breaks open in
the ground, then grows, then gets
harvested, then crushed in the mill for
flour, then baked, then crushed again
between teeth to become a person’s
deepest understanding.
Lost in Love, like songs the planters
sing the night after they sow the seed.”

Stories/Koans/Parables: Maybe So, Maybe Not, Who’s To Say?

It’s been a few years since I first shared this story — but the message is one of those things that I continue to fall back on when faced with uncertainty. I have learned to respond to more and more things like the farmer in this story, never knowing what is a blessing in disguise or a good looking curse. It also helps to remember that I have personally played both roles in the lives of others. When faced with trouble or difficulty, remember Life is constantly moving –where you are is not where you end up. “Maybe so, May not, who’s to say?”