How do you know when you really want something?

The message for us is, when something hurts, wail about it. When the hurt is gone, move on to the next thing.

Many people hold an unexamined belief that emotion means something is true. That is not so, but the level of emotion, the presence or absence of emotion, often determines our relationship with a particular piece of life content.

Knowing that we do not know is the beginning of wisdom.

think that our lives would be diminished by the loss of any aspect of ourselves. If I were to idealize anything, it would not be living without subpersonalities, it would be having free access to all the possibilities within a human being.

Unfortunately, instead of identifying with a particular subpersonality only during the situation for which it is appropriate, we often remain identified with a subpersonality, carrying its responses into other situations, quite inappropriately.

what if you just stayed with that part of you that is lonely? What if you didn’t have a drink to numb her feelings or eat so much food that there was no room for her to be there? I suspect what would happen is that you would get to know her, turn your attention to her, spend time with her, and soon neither one of you would feel lonely or have a nee

For the first time in my life, I saw another view of myself, and I had sympathy for the person I saw.

Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh was fond of pointing out that the most ordinary thing in the world is the desire to be extraordinary, and the most extraordinary thing is to be ordinary. We have judgments about people who are merely existing. We want to live. The problem is that we are so busy trying to live somewhere out in a future perfection, when we are