MY CLIPPINGS 20 de abril de 2019 - 26 de maio de 2019

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Trilogia Tebana, A: Édipo Rei / Édipo em Colono / Antígona (Sófocles)
- Seu destaque na página 42 | Posição 636-639 | Adicionado na data sábado, 20 de abril de 2019, 02:19:19

E desprezar um amigo fidedigno, em minha opinião é o mesmo que menosprezar a própria vida, 715 o bem mais precioso. Com o passar dos anos seguramente reconhecerás tudo isso, pois só com o tempo se revela o homem justo; mas basta um dia para descobrir o pérfido.

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Sobre a Vaidade (Michel Eyquem de Montaigne)
- Seu destaque na página 13 | Posição 198-199 | Adicionado na data quarta-feira, 24 de abril de 2019, 08:05:15

Num tempo em que o obrar maldosamente é tão comum, só obrar inutilmente chega a ser louvável.
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Sobre a Vaidade (Michel Eyquem de Montaigne)
- Seu marcador de página na página 14 | Posição 201 | Adicionado na data quarta-feira, 24 de abril de 2019, 09:38:08


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Sobre a Vaidade (Michel Eyquem de Montaigne)
- Seu destaque na página 15 | Posição 216-217 | Adicionado na data quarta-feira, 24 de abril de 2019, 09:46:35

Como se a boa fortuna fosse incompatível com a boa consciência, os homens só se tornam gente de bem na má fortuna. A felicidade é para mim singular aguilhão para a moderação e a modéstia. A súplica me conquista, a ameaça me enfada; o favor me dobra, o medo me entesa.
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Sobre a Vaidade (Michel Eyquem de Montaigne)
- Seu destaque na página 15 | Posição 225-226 | Adicionado na data quarta-feira, 24 de abril de 2019, 12:45:38

Há alguma comodidade em dar ordens, nem que seja numa granja, e em ser obedecido pelos seus, mas esse é um prazer demasiado uniforme e débil.
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Sobre a Vaidade (Michel Eyquem de Montaigne)
- Seu destaque na página 81 | Posição 1227-1228 | Adicionado na data quarta-feira, 24 de abril de 2019, 12:53:18

Não é pelos rendimentos que se deve calcular a fortuna de alguém, mas por seus hábitos e pelo seu gênero de vida. (Cícero, Paradoxos, VI, 3.)
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Women (Charles Bukowski)
- Seu destaque na página 67 | Posição 1022-1024 | Adicionado na data sábado, 27 de abril de 2019, 00:31:41

I picked up the empty pint and sadly put it down again. “There’s too much coldness in the world,” I told her. “If people would only talk things out together it would help.”
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Women (Charles Bukowski)
- Seu destaque na página 74 | Posição 1125-1126 | Adicionado na data sábado, 27 de abril de 2019, 10:52:38

Goodness could be found sometimes in the middle of hell.
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Women (Charles Bukowski)
- Seu destaque na página 151 | Posição 2303-2306 | Adicionado na data segunda-feira, 29 de abril de 2019, 12:18:03

The stewardess came back and shook Tammie. “Honey, what’s the matter?” Tammie started responding. She moved. Then her eyes opened. It was only the matter of a new voice. Nobody listened to an old voice anymore. Old voices became a part of one’s self, like a fingernail.
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Women (Charles Bukowski)
- Seu destaque na página 174 | Posição 2654-2655 | Adicionado na data terça-feira, 30 de abril de 2019, 20:46:53

Kissing is more intimate than fucking. That’s why I never liked my girlfriends to go around kissing men. I’d rather they fucked them.
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Hunger (transl. Robert Bly, 1969) (Knut Hamsun)
- Seu destaque na página 25 | Posição 371-372 | Adicionado na data quarta-feira, 1 de maio de 2019, 13:42:25

Why should I be troubled for what I would eat, or for what I would drink, or for what I would put on this vile bag of worms which is called my earthly body?
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Hunger (transl. Robert Bly, 1969) (Knut Hamsun)
- Seu destaque na página 31 | Posição 463-464 | Adicionado na data quarta-feira, 1 de maio de 2019, 16:09:19

I became annoyed, and an inner bitterness began to rise in me against this creature whom nothing could disconcert and nothing could make suspicious.

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Hunger (transl. Robert Bly, 1969) (Knut Hamsun)
- Seu destaque na página 59 | Posição 895-896 | Adicionado na data sexta-feira, 3 de maio de 2019, 13:38:52

my strength now was falling off noticeably. Whenever I had been lucky and scraped up five kroner by some maneuver or other, the money never managed to last long enough to get me back on my feet before a new famine fell on me.
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Hunger (transl. Robert Bly, 1969) (Knut Hamsun)
- Seu destaque na página 69 | Posição 1047-1050 | Adicionado na data sexta-feira, 3 de maio de 2019, 23:52:17

Without any check, my thoughts again took off on their wild course. I was aware all the time that I was talking gibberish, and I didn't speak a single word without hearing and understanding it. I said to myself: Now you are talking gibberish again! And I couldn't help it. It was like being awake while you talk in your sleep. My brain was calm, without aches or any pressure, and my mood was clear and cloudless. I sailed off, and I made no move to stop myself.
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Hunger (transl. Robert Bly, 1969) (Knut Hamsun)
- Seu destaque na página 75 | Posição 1141-1142 | Adicionado na data sábado, 4 de maio de 2019, 07:12:08

The hope of selling these five buttons cheered me up instantly, and I said: "See, it's all going to come out all right!"
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Hunger (transl. Robert Bly, 1969) (Knut Hamsun)
- Seu destaque na página 75 | Posição 1149-1150 | Adicionado na data sábado, 4 de maio de 2019, 07:25:09

He tried to go by, didn't answer my greeting, suddenly became very occupied in looking at his fingernails.
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Hunger (transl. Robert Bly, 1969) (Knut Hamsun)
- Seu destaque na página 78 | Posição 1189-1190 | Adicionado na data sábado, 4 de maio de 2019, 08:10:24

"No idiotic tricks! Conscience, you say? No rubbish --you are too poor to have a conscience! You are hungry, hungry, this is a grave matter now, this is urgent!

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Hunger (transl. Robert Bly, 1969) (Knut Hamsun)
- Seu destaque na página 87 | Posição 1321-1322 | Adicionado na data sábado, 4 de maio de 2019, 13:41:47

Of course it wasn't at all certain I could keep down a mouthful of water either; my stomach was sensitive to everything now--I even felt nauseated from the spit I swallowed as I walked.
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Hunger (transl. Robert Bly, 1969) (Knut Hamsun)
- Seu destaque na página 101 | Posição 1498-1544 | Adicionado na data domingo, 5 de maio de 2019, 00:10:05

Time passed. I heard traffic noise outdoors. Noise from wagons and horses, Jens Olai's voice floated up to me from the stable where he was talking to the horses. I was in a real stupor. I smacked my lips once or twice but undertook nothing else. My chest was giving me pain. Dusk began to fall, I sank into myself more and more, grew tired and lay back on the bed. To warm my hands a bit, I pushed my fingers through my hair, back and forth, crossways and sideways; small handfuls came loose, tufts came away between my fingers and spread over the pillow. I didn't worry about that, it was as if it were not happening to me; I had plenty of hair anyway. After a while I attempted to rouse myself from this curious drowsiness which had floated into all my limbs like a fog; I sat up, coughed as hard as my chest would allow-- and fell back once more. Nothing to do, I was dying with open eyes, helpless, staring up at the ceiling. Finally I put my forefinger in my mouth and started sucking on it. Something started to flicker in my brain, an idea that had gotten free in there, a lunatic notion. Suppose I took a bite? Without a moment's hesitation I shut my eyes and clamped down hard with my teeth. I leaped up. Finally I was awake. A little blood trickled from the finger, and I licked it off. There wasn't much pain, the wound didn't amount to anything, but I was suddenly myself again. I shook my head, walked to the window, and found a rag for my finger. While I stood puttering about with that, my eyes suddenly filled, I cried softly to myself. The poor bitten thin finger looked so pitiful. My God, I was a long way down. It got darker--perhaps it would be possible for me to write the finale tonight if I only had a candle. My brain was clear once more. Thoughts came and went as usual, and I wasn't suffering so horribly; hunger wasn't bothering me as much as it did several hours ago, I could certainly hold out till the next day. Maybe I could get a candle on credit if I went to the grocery store and simply explained the situation. I was well known there--in the good days when I still had money I had bought many a loaf in their shop. There was no doubt whatever that I could get a candle on the strength of my good name. So for the first time in weeks I brushed up my clothes a bit and whisked away the loose hairs on my coat collar as well as I could in the dark. Then I felt my way down the stairs. When I got out on the street, it occurred to me that perhaps I ought to ask for some bread instead. I became indecisive, stopped and thought for a while. "No, absolutely not!" I finally replied to myself. I was unfortunately not in condition now to tolerate food--it would be the same story as before: visions and "feelings" and crazy ideas. My article would never get finished that way, and it was important I visit the Chief soon before he forgot who I was. Absolutely not! I decided definitely on a candle. I walked into the grocery store. A woman stood at the counter, making purchases; at my side, a number of small parcels were lying, wrapped in various sorts of paper. The clerk, who recognized me and knew what I usually bought, left the woman for a moment, wrapped a loaf of bread quickly in newspaper, and laid it in front of me. "No--actually it is a candle I need tonight," I said. I said it very softly and humbly so as not to irritate him and so spoil my chance for the candle. He hadn't expected that answer; it was the first tune I had ever asked for anything besides bread from him. "All right, you'll have to wait a bit then," he said, and returned to the woman's order. She received her articles and paid, giving him a five-kroner bill, took the change back from it, and left. The clerk and I were now alone. He said, "Oh, yes, it was a candle." He tore open a package of candles and handed one to me. He looked at me and I looked at him; I couldn't get my request out. "Oh yes, that's right, you paid," he said suddenly. He said flatly that I had paid: I heard every word. He began pulling up silver coins from the till, krone after krone, shiny, fat coins--he gave me back change for a five-kroner bill, the woman's bill. "There you are!" he said. I stood there gaping at the money a second, I was aware that something was wrong somewhere, but I didn't go into it, I thought of nothing at all; I was dazed at the treasure that lay there glittering before my eyes. I gathered the coins up mechanically. I remained standing by the counter, dumb with amazement, defeated, humiliated; I took a step toward the door and stopped again. I fixed my gaze on a certain point on the wall where a training collar with a small bell hung, and underneath it, a package of shoelaces. I stood gazing at these objects. The clerk thought I wanted to exchange a few words since I was taking so much time in going, and he said, while tidying up some wrapping paper that was loose on the counter: "It looks as if we're going to have winter now." "Hmm. Yes," I answered. "It looks as if we're going to have winter now. It looks that way." A second later I added, "Well, it's about time, I think. But it certainly does look that way. Of course it's about time, too." I heard myself speaking this gibberish but took in each word I spoke as if it were coming from another person. "Oh, do you think so?" said the clerk. I put my hand with the money into my pocket, turned the knob, and went out; I heard myself say good night, and the clerk answer. I was a few steps down the street when the shop door was thrown open and the clerk shouted after me. I turned around without a trace of surprise or a twinge of fear; I simply gathered the coins together in my hand and got ready to give them back. "For you, you forgot your candle," the clerk said. "Oh, thank you," I answered calmly. "Many thanks!" I kept on walking down the street, carrying the candle in my hand. My first rational thought had to do with the money. I went over to a street lamp and counted it, weighed it in my hand and smiled. In any case, this help was magnificent, incredible, I had been wonderfully helped for a long, long time! I put my hand with the money back in my pocket and walked on.
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Hunger (transl. Robert Bly, 1969) (Knut Hamsun)
- Seu destaque na página 117 | Posição 1770-1780 | Adicionado na data segunda-feira, 6 de maio de 2019, 12:45:18

My good God, what a situation I am in now! I was so deeply sick and tired of my whole miserable life that it wasn't worth fighting any longer to keep it. Circumstances had won, they had been too harsh. I was completely worn down, just a shadow of my old self. My shoulders had a serious slump in them from favoring my one side, and I had gotten the habit of leaning over when I walked in order to spare my chest a little. I had examined my body a couple of days ago, one noon up in my room, and I cried the whole time over it. I had worn the same shirt for many weeks now, it was stiff from old sweat, and it had rubbed the point of my navel raw. A little bloody water came out of the wound; even though there was no pain, it was pitiful to have this sore place in the middle of my stomach. There was nothing to do about it, and it wouldn't heal by itself this way; I had washed it, dried it carefully, and put the same shirt on again. Nothing else to do. . . . I sat on the bench thinking all this over, feeling sad; I was disgusted at myself; even my hands looked revolting to me. The flabby and shameless expression on the back of my hands pained me, brought me disgust. Looking at my emaciated fingers, I felt a nausea move in me, I hated my whole sagging body, and I shuddered having to carry it, to feel it around me. God, if the whole thing would only end now! I sincerely wanted to die.

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Osho (Sex Matters-St. Martin's Griffin (2003))
- Seu destaque na página 1 | Posição 14-14 | Adicionado na data terça-feira, 7 de maio de 2019, 22:28:36

But the masses worship the leaders of the religions as the creators of love.
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Osho (Sex Matters-St. Martin's Griffin (2003))
- Seu destaque na página 2 | Posição 24-26 | Adicionado na data terça-feira, 7 de maio de 2019, 22:33:03

If misleading principles are repeated and reiterated down the centuries we fail to see the basic fallacies behind the original principles. And then chaos is created, because man is intrinsically incapable of becoming what these unnatural rules say he should become. We simply accept that man is wrong.
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Osho (Sex Matters-St. Martin's Griffin (2003))
- Seu destaque na página 4 | Posição 56-59 | Adicionado na data quarta-feira, 8 de maio de 2019, 00:00:43

They say, ”Man is wrong; man should change himself,” yet no one stands up to question whether things aren’t like they are because our culture and religion, unable to fill man with love after ten thousand years, are based on false values. And if love hasn’t evolved in the last ten thousand years, take it from me there is no future possibility, based on this culture and religion, of ever seeing a loving man.
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Osho (Sex Matters-St. Martin's Griffin (2003))
- Seu destaque na página 5 | Posição 61-63 | Adicionado na data quarta-feira, 8 de maio de 2019, 00:08:56

We are not prepared to review our culture and religion, yet we sing their praises at the top of our lungs, and kiss the feet of their saints and custodians. We won’t even agree to look back, to reflect upon our ways and upon the direction of our thinking, to check if they are not misleading, to see if they are not all wrong.
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Osho (Sex Matters-St. Martin's Griffin (2003))
- Seu destaque na página 5 | Posição 74-74 | Adicionado na data quarta-feira, 8 de maio de 2019, 00:27:24

More so than in man, love can be seen in the birds, animals and plants, in those who have no religion or culture.
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Osho (Sex Matters-St. Martin's Griffin (2003))
- Seu destaque na página 7 | Posição 94-95 | Adicionado na data quarta-feira, 8 de maio de 2019, 07:02:37

Sickness comes from the outside hence it can be defined; health comes from within hence it cannot be defined.
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Osho (Sex Matters-St. Martin's Griffin (2003))
- Seu destaque na página 11 | Posição 159-164 | Adicionado na data quarta-feira, 8 de maio de 2019, 10:37:47

While blessing a newly wed couple, a sage said to the bride, ”May you be the mother of ten children and, ultimately, may your husband become your eleventh child.” If passion is transformed, the wife can become the mother; if lust is transcended, sex can become love. Only sex energy can flower into the force of love. But we have filled man with antagonism towards sex and the result is that love has not flowered. What comes later, the form-to-come, can only be made possible by the acceptance of sex. The stream of love cannot break through because of the strong opposition. Sex, on the other hand, keeps churning inside, and the consciousness of man is muddled with sexuality.
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Osho (Sex Matters-St. Martin's Griffin (2003))
- Seu destaque na página 14 | Posição 196-200 | Adicionado na data quarta-feira, 8 de maio de 2019, 13:40:07

That poor man didn’t know that the more he resolved not to say anything, the more firmly rooted the inner awareness that the clothes belonged to him became. Moreover, when are such firm decisions made? When a man makes a firm resolution, like a vow of celibacy for example, it means that his sexuality is pushing desperately from inside. If a man resolves he will eat less or will fast from today on, it implies he has a deep desire to eat more. Such efforts inevitably result in inner conflict. We are what our weaknesses are. But we decide to curb them; we resolve to fight against them – and naturally, this becomes a source of subconscious conflict.
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Osho (Sex Matters-St. Martin's Griffin (2003))
- Seu destaque na página 15 | Posição 214-218 | Adicionado na data quarta-feira, 8 de maio de 2019, 13:44:56

But one should always be wary of those who swear because there is something much deeper involved when one resolves something. A resolution is made by the surface mind, and the thing against which the resolution has been taken remains inside in the labyrinths of the subconscious mind. If the mind were divided into ten parts, it would only be one part, just the upper part, that was committed to the resolve; the remaining nine parts would be against it. The vow of celibacy is taken by one part of the mind, for example, while the rest of the mind is mad for sex – while the rest is crying out for that very thing that has been implanted in man by God. But for the moment, be that as it may.
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Osho (Sex Matters-St. Martin's Griffin (2003))
- Seu destaque na página 15 | Posição 220-221 | Adicionado na data quarta-feira, 8 de maio de 2019, 17:28:03

Please remember, anything that is forced can neither be continuous nor complete
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Osho (Sex Matters-St. Martin's Griffin (2003))
- Seu destaque na página 15 | Posição 224-225 | Adicionado na data quarta-feira, 8 de maio de 2019, 17:32:49

Anything that tires you cannot be a natural part of life. Whenever you force something, a period of rest is bound to follow.
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Osho (Sex Matters-St. Martin's Griffin (2003))
- Seu destaque na página 16 | Posição 237-241 | Adicionado na data quarta-feira, 8 de maio de 2019, 17:49:50

A girl grows and a boy grows; adolescence comes and they are married – then a journey into passion commences in the set conviction that sex is sin. In India the girl is also told her husband is God. How can she revere as God someone who takes her in sin? The boy is told, ”This is your wife, your partner, your mate.” The scriptures say that woman is the gate to hell, a well of sin, and now the boy feels he has a living demon as his life’s partner. The boy thinks, ”Is this my better half – a hell-bound, sin-oriented better half?” How can any harmony happen in his life?
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Osho (Sex Matters-St. Martin's Griffin (2003))
- Seu destaque na página 18 | Posição 270-272 | Adicionado na data quarta-feira, 8 de maio de 2019, 20:02:31

It is snobbery to believe that love is everywhere. And so long as we remain immersed in this illusion, the search for truth cannot even begin. Nobody loves anybody here. And until natural sex is accepted without reservation there can be no love. Until then, nobody can love anybody.
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Osho (Sex Matters-St. Martin's Griffin (2003))
- Seu destaque na página 18 | Posição 270-274 | Adicionado na data quarta-feira, 8 de maio de 2019, 20:04:44

It is snobbery to believe that love is everywhere. And so long as we remain immersed in this illusion, the search for truth cannot even begin. Nobody loves anybody here. And until natural sex is accepted without reservation there can be no love. Until then, nobody can love anybody. What I want to say is this: sex is divine. The primal energy of sex has the reflection of God in it. It is obvious: it is the energy that creates new life. And that is the greatest, most mysterious force of all.
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Osho (Sex Matters-St. Martin's Griffin (2003))
- Seu destaque na página 20 | Posição 302-307 | Adicionado na data quarta-feira, 8 de maio de 2019, 22:32:17

Accept life in its pure and natural form and thrive on the fullness of it. The fullness itself will elevate you, step by step. And this very same acceptance of sex will uplift you to serene heights you had not imagined possible. If sex is coal, the day is certain to come when it shows itself as diamonds. And that is the first principle. The second fundamental thing I want to tell you is about something that has, by now, become hardened within us by civilization, culture and religion. And that is the ego, the consciousness that ”I am”.
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Osho (Sex Matters-St. Martin's Griffin (2003))
- Seu destaque na página 21 | Posição 313-315 | Adicionado na data quarta-feira, 8 de maio de 2019, 22:36:54

The stronger a person’s ego is, the harder it is for him to unite with anybody. The ego comes in between; the ”I” asserts itself. It is a wall. It proclaims, ”You are you and I am I.” And so even the most intimate experience does not bring people close to each other. The bodies may be near but the people are far apart. So long as there is this ”I” inside, this feeling of otherness cannot be avoided.
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Osho (Sex Matters-St. Martin's Griffin (2003))
- Seu destaque na página 22 | Posição 325-332 | Adicionado na data quarta-feira, 8 de maio de 2019, 23:09:46

How is it possible to erase myself? Unless I dissolve myself, how can the other unite with me? The other is created as a reaction to my ”I”. The louder I shout ”I”, the more forceful becomes the existence of the other. The other is the echo of ”I”. And what is ”I”? Have you ever thought calmly about it? Is it in your leg or your hand, in your head or your heart? Or is it just the ego? What and where is your ”I”, your ego? The feeling of it is there, yet it is to be found in no particular place. Sit quietly for a moment and search for that ”I”. You may be surprised, but in spite of an intense search you will not find your ”I” anywhere. When you search deeply inside you will realize there is no ”I”. As such, there is no ego. When there is the truth of the self the ”I” is not there.
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Osho (Sex Matters-St. Martin's Griffin (2003))
- Seu destaque na página 25 | Posição 367-371 | Adicionado na data quarta-feira, 8 de maio de 2019, 23:26:16

Love can only be born out of emptiness. Only a void is capable of merging with another void; only zero can unite totally with another zero. Not two individuals, but two vacuums can meet, because now there is no barrier. All else has walls; a vacuum has none. So the second thing to remember is that love is born when individuality vanishes, when ”I” and ”the other” are no more. Whatsoever remains then is everything, the limitless – but no ”I”. With that attainment, all barriers crumble and the onrush of the ever-ready Ganges takes place.
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Osho (Sex Matters-St. Martin's Griffin (2003))
- Seu destaque na página 25 | Posição 381-383 | Adicionado na data quarta-feira, 8 de maio de 2019, 23:38:39

Love between big and small is possible, if the big is not aware that it is big. The tree did not know it was big; only man has that kind of knowledge. The big always has the ego as its prime concern, but for love, nobody is big or small. Love embraces whomsoever comes near.
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Osho (Sex Matters-St. Martin's Griffin (2003))
- Seu destaque na página 26 | Posição 383-386 | Adicionado na data quarta-feira, 8 de maio de 2019, 23:40:39

So the tree developed a love for this small boy who used to come to play near it. Its branches were high, but it bent and bowed them down so that he might pluck its flowers and pick its fruit. Love is ever ready to bow; the ego is never ready to bend. If you approach the ego, its branches will stretch upwards even more; it will stiffen so you cannot reach it.
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Osho (Sex Matters-St. Martin's Griffin (2003))
- Seu destaque na página 26 | Posição 389-390 | Adicionado na data quarta-feira, 8 de maio de 2019, 23:59:57

One becomes like a king when the flowers of love are there, but one becomes poor and miserable when the thorns of the ego are present.
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Osho (Sex Matters-St. Martin's Griffin (2003))
- Seu destaque na página 26 | Posição 395-396 | Adicionado na data quinta-feira, 9 de maio de 2019, 00:01:49

Love is sad when it cannot share; love is sad when it cannot give. Love is grateful when it can share. When it can surrender, totally, love is the happiest.
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Osho (Sex Matters-St. Martin's Griffin (2003))
- Seu destaque na página 27 | Posição 400-401 | Adicionado na data quinta-feira, 9 de maio de 2019, 00:04:13

The ego is always motivated. Only if there is some purpose to be served will the ego come. But love is motiveless. Love is its own reward.
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Osho (Sex Matters-St. Martin's Griffin (2003))
- Seu destaque na página 31 | Posição 469-470 | Adicionado na data quinta-feira, 9 de maio de 2019, 20:23:54

They flare up, not because what has been said is incorrect but because they have been shown their own folly, because they are reminded of what they have lost. Their egos step in; they get angry.
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Osho (Sex Matters-St. Martin's Griffin (2003))
- Seu destaque na página 32 | Posição 477-481 | Adicionado na data quinta-feira, 9 de maio de 2019, 21:30:28

Within this body of blood, flesh and bones, something or someone aloof from these things exists. It has nothing to do with flesh, blood or bones; it is immortal. It has neither beginning nor end. Formless, it is at the core of each one of us. From the darkness of your ignorance, I urge you, yearn for that imperishable flame! But the immortal flame is disguised by the smoke of mortality, and so we cannot see the light. We encounter the smoke and step back. Those who are a bit more courageous search a little, but only in the smoke, and so they cannot reach the flame, the source of illumination, either.
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Osho (Sex Matters-St. Martin's Griffin (2003))
- Seu marcador de página na página 33 | Posição 502 | Adicionado na data quinta-feira, 9 de maio de 2019, 23:10:26


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Osho (Sex Matters-St. Martin's Griffin (2003))
- Seu destaque na página 35 | Posição 527-528 | Adicionado na data quinta-feira, 9 de maio de 2019, 23:52:39

our religion has become a religion for people advanced in age; it is for those haunted by the fear of death, for those at the end of their lives, for those full of anxiety about what comes after death.
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Osho (Sex Matters-St. Martin's Griffin (2003))
- Seu destaque na página 38 | Posição 574-576 | Adicionado na data sexta-feira, 10 de maio de 2019, 10:56:48

Sages from Nietzsche to Aurobindo, from Patanjali to Bertrand Russell have nurtured an image in their heart of hearts, a dream of how a man superior to themselves will come forth – a superman.
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Osho (Sex Matters-St. Martin's Griffin (2003))
- Seu destaque na página 39 | Posição 581-590 | Adicionado na data sexta-feira, 10 de maio de 2019, 12:47:12

Imagine a novice learning to ride a bicycle. The road may be big and wide, but if there is a small rock lying by the side of the road the cyclist will be afraid he will bump into the stone. There is a hundred-to-one chance against his running into that stone – even a blind man would, in all probability, pass it safely by – but because of his fear the rider is only aware of the stone. The stone looms large in his mind and the road vanishes for him. He is hypnotized by that stone, drawn to it, and in the end he dashes against it. He collides with that very thing from which he has done his utmost to save himself. The road was big and wide, so how did this man have an accident? The psychologist Coue says that the average mind is governed by the Law of Reverse-Effect. We collide with the very thing from which we are trying to save ourselves because the object of our fear becomes the center of our consciousness. In the same way, man has been trying to save himself from sex for the last five thousand years. And the result is that everywhere, in every nook and corner, he is confronted by sex – in all its various forms. The Law of Reverse-Effect has arrested the soul of man.
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Osho (Sex Matters-St. Martin's Griffin (2003))
- Seu destaque na página 40 | Posição 598-599 | Adicionado na data sexta-feira, 10 de maio de 2019, 12:51:08

The ostrich thrusts his head into the sand
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Osho (Sex Matters-St. Martin's Griffin (2003))
- Seu destaque na página 60 | Posição 905-906 | Adicionado na data sexta-feira, 10 de maio de 2019, 22:20:40

The biggest outlet for man’s energy is sex.
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Osho (Sex Matters-St. Martin's Griffin (2003))
- Seu destaque na página 60 | Posição 915-918 | Adicionado na data sexta-feira, 10 de maio de 2019, 22:28:52

If man is not shown a new door, he will continue to revolve in the same repetitive circle and will eventually destroy himself. But man’s backward idea of sex has prevented him from even thinking about any other door, about any superior outlet. And a great and disruptive chaos has been created in his life.
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Osho (Sex Matters-St. Martin's Griffin (2003))
- Seu destaque na página 70 | Posição 1055-1060 | Adicionado na data sábado, 11 de maio de 2019, 20:44:42

A sense of profound gratification is born between husband and wife when each serves as a medium to transform the sexual desires of the other. A true friendship flowers when they become partners in ascendancy, in the transcendence of sex. That day, the man is filled with respect for the woman because she has helped him gain deliverance from lust; that day, the woman is filled with gratitude towards the man for freeing her from passion. From that day on, they live in the true harmony of love, and no longer in lust. This is the beginning of that voyage whereby the husband becomes God for his wife and the wife becomes a deity for her husband. But that possibility has been poisoned.
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Osho (Sex Matters-St. Martin's Griffin (2003))
- Seu destaque na página 74 | Posição 1130-1134 | Adicionado na data domingo, 12 de maio de 2019, 08:09:37

Secondly, children should be taught to meditate – how to remain calm, serene, silent; how to reach the state of no-mind. Children can learn to accomplish this very, very quickly. Every home should have a scheduled program to help children move into silence. And that will only be possible, when you, as parents, also practice with them. A daily hour of sitting silently should be compulsory in every home. One should even do away with a meal if necessary, but an hour of silence must be observed at all costs. It is wrong to call that house a home where an hour of silence isn’t observed daily. It can not even be called a family.
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Osho (Sex Matters-St. Martin's Griffin (2003))
- Seu destaque na página 75 | Posição 1141-1146 | Adicionado na data domingo, 12 de maio de 2019, 08:17:18

A man is able to spread love to those around him in direct proportion to the love that grows within him. Those who are empty of love are filled with sex. And sex-minded they remain. The less a man loves, the more he hates; the less love there is in a man’s life, the more spiteful his life will be. And those who are devoid of love are filled with jealousy to the same degree. The less a man loves, the more strife he will know. People are worried and unhappy in direct proportion to the lack of love in their lives. And the more a man is engulfed by worry, jealousy, vanity, lies and the like, the more his energies will weaken, will become frail and feeble; he will be tense all the time. And the only outlet for this crude, crass, low and debased group of emotions is sex.
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Osho (Sex Matters-St. Martin's Griffin (2003))
- Sua nota na página 75 | Posição 1146 | Adicionado na data domingo, 12 de maio de 2019, 08:19:34

Ess parte eu vou comentar com a Mari qualquer hora
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Osho (Sex Matters-St. Martin's Griffin (2003))
- Seu destaque na página 76 | Posição 1155-1156 | Adicionado na data domingo, 12 de maio de 2019, 08:27:38

but those who are not after power but are in pursuit of love, those who distribute love anywhere and everywhere, live in exalted bliss.
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Osho (Sex Matters-St. Martin's Griffin (2003))
- Seu destaque na página 78 | Posição 1183-1193 | Adicionado na data domingo, 12 de maio de 2019, 10:51:23

To say one should love his mother is wrong; it is a misrepresentation. If a father asks his child to love him just because he is his father it is deception; he is giving a reason for love. Similarly, if a mother tells her child he must love her for the simple reason that she is his mother, it is an imposition. The love that has the strings of ”because” and ”therefore” attached to it is misnamed. Love should be motiveless; it should not be bogged down with reasons. The mother says, ”I looked after you; I brought you up, therefore love me.” She is giving a reason. And there, love ends. If a child is forced, he may unwillingly show some affection because she is his mother, but the aim of teaching love is not to force the child to express love for some reason, but to create an environment in which the child will be full of love. It must be brought home to you that a child’s growth, his whole personality, his entire future, depends on this joy at being loving to anybody or anything he meets – be it a stone, a human being, a flower, an animal, whatever. The point is not just to love an animal or a flower or his mother or someone else, the whole point is for the child to be full of love. On this depends not only his future, but the future of mankind. The tremendous possibilities for the flowering of joy and of happiness in a man’s life depend on how much love there is inside him. A loving man can also be freed from sexuality.
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Osho (Sex Matters-St. Martin's Griffin (2003))
- Sua nota na página 78 | Posição 1193 | Adicionado na data domingo, 12 de maio de 2019, 10:52:31

onda errada da minha mae, rebatida!!
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Osho (Sex Matters-St. Martin's Griffin (2003))
- Seu destaque na página 84 | Posição 1278-1278 | Adicionado na data domingo, 12 de maio de 2019, 16:07:15

To be fragrant is a flower’s nature.
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Osho (Sex Matters-St. Martin's Griffin (2003))
- Seu destaque na página 87 | Posição 1322-1323 | Adicionado na data domingo, 12 de maio de 2019, 19:43:02

”Perhaps you are not aware that at the door of the rich, men are treated as animals, but this is the hut of a poor fakir and we are accustomed to treating even animals as human beings.
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Osho (Sex Matters-St. Martin's Griffin (2003))
- Seu destaque na página 87 | Posição 1330-1333 | Adicionado na data domingo, 12 de maio de 2019, 19:51:19

Pure love can only survive if it is not adulterated by conditions; a conditional love is not love. Have you never had a feeling of contentment after having smiled at a stranger in the street? Didn’t a breeze of peace follow it? There is no limit to the wave of tranquil joy you will feel when you lift a fallen man, when you support a fallen person, when you present a sick man with flowers
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Osho (Sex Matters-St. Martin's Griffin (2003))
- Seu destaque na página 89 | Posição 1349-1350 | Adicionado na data domingo, 12 de maio de 2019, 20:00:06

They, as well, can start afresh; they, as well, can learn, if they haven’t taken for granted that they already know everything or that they have already achieved everything desirable.
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Osho (Sex Matters-St. Martin's Griffin (2003))
- Seu destaque na página 89 | Posição 1362-1363 | Adicionado na data domingo, 12 de maio de 2019, 20:06:03

At no time has any man gone so far on the wrong path that he cannot return to the right one; no man has become so wayward that he cannot benefit from the true light.
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Osho (Sex Matters-St. Martin's Griffin (2003))
- Seu destaque na página 92 | Posição 1401-1401 | Adicionado na data domingo, 12 de maio de 2019, 20:20:51

But nobody was prepared to acknowledge his own ignorance. No man is that bold.
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Osho (Sex Matters-St. Martin's Griffin (2003))
- Seu destaque na página 93 | Posição 1412-1419 | Adicionado na data domingo, 12 de maio de 2019, 20:30:11

I say the same thing as far as our knowledge of sex is concerned. We do not know anything about it. Perhaps you will not agree. You will argue, ”It is quite possible we do not know anything about the soul or God, but how can you say we do not know anything about sex?” You will probably reply that you have a wife and that you have children. And yet I dare to tell you that you do not know anything about sex, although it may be very difficult for you to agree with what I say. You may have gone through sexual experiences, but you know no more about sex than an animal. To go through a process mechanically is not enough to know it. A man may have driven a car for a thousand miles, but it does not necessarily follow that he knows anything about the engine. He might ridicule my statement, saying he had just driven a thousand miles, but I still venture to make the accusation that he knows nothing about the car. I repeat, driving a car is different from knowing the internal mechanism.
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Osho (Sex Matters-St. Martin's Griffin (2003))
- Seu destaque na página 98 | Posição 1487-1492 | Adicionado na data domingo, 12 de maio de 2019, 21:09:05

So far, I have discussed two factors for attaining that absolute experience: one’s breathing should be shallow, so shallow that it is almost not there at all, and one’s awareness should be focused on the agnichakra, on the midpoint between the eyes. The more one’s awareness is focused on this center, the more profound the intercourse will automatically be. And the duration of coitus will be in direct proportion to the slowness of the breathing. And then, for the first time, you will realize that the attraction is not for intercourse as such; the magnetic pull is that of samadhi. If you can scale those heights, if you can glimpse that brilliance, it will illuminate your future path.
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Osho (Sex Matters-St. Martin's Griffin (2003))
- Seu destaque na página 99 | Posição 1510-1516 | Adicionado na data domingo, 12 de maio de 2019, 21:29:57

If we approach sex with a pure mind and with a feeling of reverence, we can easily have a glimpse of him. But alas, we approach sex indifferently. We approach sex with an attitude of condemnation, with a feeling of guilt, and we fail to feel the existence of the Creator. One should never approach sex while one is in anguish, in spite, in jealousy, in indignation; one should never approach sex filled with worries or in an unclean atmosphere. But the general practice is the contrary. The more one is full of anger, dejected, in torment or in despair, the more one moves into sex. A cheerful man does not chase after sex, but a sorrowful man moves into sex because he sees it as the perfect escape from his unhappiness. But remember, if you approach sex with bitterness, with irritation, with condemnation or in sadness, you will never attain to that contentment, to that realization for which your entire soul thirsts.
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Osho (Sex Matters-St. Martin's Griffin (2003))
- Seu destaque na página 111 | Posição 1694-1695 | Adicionado na data segunda-feira, 13 de maio de 2019, 20:56:39

Man is helpless; man is a slave to sex, and this helplessness is to be despised.
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Osho (Sex Matters-St. Martin's Griffin (2003))
- Seu destaque na página 112 | Posição 1708-1717 | Adicionado na data segunda-feira, 13 de maio de 2019, 21:20:27

Friends have asked many questions. One friend has asked why I selected sex as the subject of my discourses. Let me illustrate. There was a public meeting arranged in a big Bombay market and a pundit was speaking on Kabir and his philosophy. He recited the couplet: kabira khada bazarmen liye lukathi hath; jo ghar barai aapna chale hamare saath. ”Kabir is standing in the middle of the market,” he said. ”He is waving his stick and shouting to people, calling all and sundry: ‘Only those who have the courage to burn their houses should follow me.’” I observed that people were pleased with the call, and I surmised that people who felt at ease listening to such a deep and drastic message from Kabir must really have the courage to burn their houses and set out in search of truth. With such people I thought I could speak frankly, from the bottom of my heart. But, in fact, not one of them was ready to abandon or burn his house. The point is, if Kabir had been there he wouldn’t have been happy with the situation at all. All of us here relish hearing what Kabir said, but none of the people present when Kabir said it over three hundred years ago felt happy about it. I was laboring under the same illusion as Kabir, as Christ. Man is such a wonderful animal – he enjoys listening to talk about those who are dead, and threatens to kill those who are living.
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Osho (Sex Matters-St. Martin's Griffin (2003))
- Seu destaque na página 113 | Posição 1724-1731 | Adicionado na data segunda-feira, 13 de maio de 2019, 23:13:57

If a man buys manure, dirty and foul-smelling in itself, and piles it up on the street in front of his house, it will make things difficult for anyone passing by. But if he spreads the manure on his garden then his seeds will grow. The seeds will become plants and the plants will give flowers and their fragrance will be an invitation to all. Passers-by will be enchanted. You have probably never thought about it, but the fragrance of a flower is nothing but the foul smell of manure – rising upwards from the seed through the plant, the stench of manure becomes the scent of the flower. A bad smell can be transformed into a sweet perfume. In the same way, sex can become love. But how can one who hates sex ever become filled with love? How can one transform sex when one is its enemy? And so, I stressed the necessity of understanding lust, of knowing sex. The other day, I pointed out that sex had to be transformed.
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Osho (Sex Matters-St. Martin's Griffin (2003))
- Seu destaque na página 115 | Posição 1748-1750 | Adicionado na data segunda-feira, 13 de maio de 2019, 23:42:17

Ignorance can make you irreligious; knowledge will never make you irreligious. And, I say, if knowledge can cause irreligiousness, I still prefer knowledge. But, of course, that is not the case.
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Osho (Sex Matters-St. Martin's Griffin (2003))
- Seu destaque na página 115 | Posição 1748-1756 | Adicionado na data segunda-feira, 13 de maio de 2019, 23:45:15

Ignorance can make you irreligious; knowledge will never make you irreligious. And, I say, if knowledge can cause irreligiousness, I still prefer knowledge. But, of course, that is not the case. From Sex to Superconsciousness 68 Osho CHAPTER 5. FROM LUST TO THE LORD Knowledge is religion, and ignorance is irreligion. And besides, a religion that thrives on lack of knowledge is not religion at all – it is irreligion – and the sooner we are free of it, the better. The light that lacks light is not light; it is darkness under the guise of light. No, light always invites light; knowledge always welcomes knowledge. And remember, religion is nothing but another name for the search for sublime knowledge, for that realization of the perfect light. Ignorance, darkness, is always harmful.
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Osho (Sex Matters-St. Martin's Griffin (2003))
- Seu destaque na página 117 | Posição 1789-1792 | Adicionado na data terça-feira, 14 de maio de 2019, 00:36:14

If there is a stone in your yard it will be in the same place in the evening as it was in the morning, but a flower blooms in the morning and by evening it droops, falls to the ground. The stone is an inanimate object: whatever it was in the morning it will also be in the evening. A marriage made on the physical level will bring stability, but it will be not unlike that of a stone. This kind of marriage is in the interests of society, but is detrimental to the individual.
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Osho (Sex Matters-St. Martin's Griffin (2003))
- Sua nota na página 118 | Posição 1803 | Adicionado na data terça-feira, 14 de maio de 2019, 00:40:17

meu namoro
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Osho (Sex Matters-St. Martin's Griffin (2003))
- Seu destaque na página 118 | Posição 1800-1803 | Adicionado na data terça-feira, 14 de maio de 2019, 00:40:17

Another level is psychological – of the mind, of the heart. The marriages of couples who fall in love and then get married go a little further, a little deeper than marriages on the physical level. They reach the heart; they reach the psychological depth, but because of monotony they revert to the physical level every day. The institution of marriage that has developed in the West over the last two hundred years is on this level. And because of this, their societies are disjointed and debauched.
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Osho (Sex Matters-St. Martin's Griffin (2003))
- Seu destaque na página 118 | Posição 1800-1806 | Adicionado na data terça-feira, 14 de maio de 2019, 00:42:04

Another level is psychological – of the mind, of the heart. The marriages of couples who fall in love and then get married go a little further, a little deeper than marriages on the physical level. They reach the heart; they reach the psychological depth, but because of monotony they revert to the physical level every day. The institution of marriage that has developed in the West over the last two hundred years is on this level. And because of this, their societies are disjointed and debauched. The reason for this is that you cannot rely on the mind. Today the mind desires one thing; tomorrow it will ask for something else. It wants one thing in the morning and something else in the evening. What it feels now will be totally different from what it felt only moments ago.
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Osho (Sex Matters-St. Martin's Griffin (2003))
- Seu destaque na página 121 | Posição 1843-1843 | Adicionado na data terça-feira, 14 de maio de 2019, 07:16:39

No man can fulfill a woman as much as a son can;
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Osho (Sex Matters-St. Martin's Griffin (2003))
- Seu destaque na página 121 | Posição 1850-1850 | Adicionado na data terça-feira, 14 de maio de 2019, 07:28:10

Becoming a mother brings about a basic change in a woman, but fatherhood is simply a social institution.
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Osho (Sex Matters-St. Martin's Griffin (2003))
- Seu destaque na página 123 | Posição 1880-1881 | Adicionado na data terça-feira, 14 de maio de 2019, 11:39:39

But in the same breath, I want to say that when a woman develops a deep relationship with her husband, the husband also becomes a child to her. Then he is not her husband any more.
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Osho (Sex Matters-St. Martin's Griffin (2003))
- Seu destaque na página 124 | Posição 1880-1890 | Adicionado na data terça-feira, 14 de maio de 2019, 11:44:44

But in the same breath, I want to say that when a woman develops a deep relationship with her husband, the husband also becomes a child to her. Then he is not her husband any more. There are many men and women sitting here at this gathering. I wish to ask the men present here if they don’t behave exactly as little children do with their mothers when they are in a mood of total love towards their wives. Do you know why a man’s hand is unconsciously drawn towards the breast of a woman? It is the hand of a small child reaching for the breast of his mother. As soon as a man is overcome with love for a woman, his hand automatically reaches towards her breast. Why? What relation do the breasts have with love? Or with sex? Sex has no real relation to breasts at all, but a child has a deep association with the breasts of the mother. From infancy, he has been steeped in the awareness that his link is to the breast, the life-line. When a man overflows with deep love, he becomes a son! And where does the woman’s hand go? Her hand reaches for the man’s head; her fingers start caressing his hair: this is the memory of her child; she is caressing the hair of her son. That is why, if love blooms fully on the spiritual level, the husband becomes the son; that is why the husband must become a son. Then one knows that one has reached the third layer of sex, the spiritual level.
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Osho (Sex Matters-St. Martin's Griffin (2003))
- Seu destaque na página 125 | Posição 1909-1914 | Adicionado na data terça-feira, 14 de maio de 2019, 11:57:10

If what I have to say about sex is not acceptable to you, then you should not ask me about God either. If I am not deemed fit to talk about the first step, then how am I competent to talk about the last? The psychology behind this question is that kama and Rama, lust and the Lord, have, up to now, been considered each other’s enemies. Up to now, it has been taken for granted that those in search of religion can have nothing to do with sex, and that those who delve into sex can have nothing in common with spirituality. Both are illusions. The journey to kama is also the journey to Rama. The journey to lust is also the journey to light. The tremendous attraction for sex is also the search for the sublime.
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Osho (Sex Matters-St. Martin's Griffin (2003))
- Seu destaque na página 127 | Posição 1936-1937 | Adicionado na data terça-feira, 14 de maio de 2019, 12:14:42

To know what you can attain, it is important to know what you are.
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Osho (Sex Matters-St. Martin's Griffin (2003))
- Seu destaque na página 127 | Posição 1931-1937 | Adicionado na data terça-feira, 14 de maio de 2019, 12:16:22

The starting point always comes first. The destination always comes afterward. Where are you standing now? You say you long to make the journey to Rama? Good. You say you desire to reach God? Very good. But where are you standing now? Now you are stranded in lust; now you are stranded in sex – and it is from this point, from where you are now, that you must take the first step forward. It is imperative you realize where you are now. By accepting this simple fact, by understanding this stark reality, you can also see the possibility for the future. To know what you can attain, it is important to know what you are.
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Osho (Sex Matters-St. Martin's Griffin (2003))
- Sua nota na página 127 | Posição 1938 | Adicionado na data terça-feira, 14 de maio de 2019, 12:20:17

teste
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Osho (Sex Matters-St. Martin's Griffin (2003))
- Seu destaque na página 127 | Posição 1937-1938 | Adicionado na data terça-feira, 14 de maio de 2019, 12:20:17

To reach the final step, it is necessary to take the first – because the first step is going
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Osho (Sex Matters-St. Martin's Griffin (2003))
- Seu destaque na página 128 | Posição 1957-1959 | Adicionado na data terça-feira, 14 de maio de 2019, 12:33:44

Tantra made early attempts to spiritualize sex, and, although we banned thinking about Tantra thousands of years ago, the monuments of Khajuraho and the temples of Puri and Konarak are living testimonials. Have you ever been to Khajuraho?
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Osho (Sex Matters-St. Martin's Griffin (2003))
- Seu destaque na página 132 | Posição 2020-2021 | Adicionado na data terça-feira, 14 de maio de 2019, 20:47:54

The author George Gouzette says that Jesus planned his own crucifixion.
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Osho (Sex Matters-St. Martin's Griffin (2003))
- Seu destaque na página 133 | Posição 2033-2034 | Adicionado na data terça-feira, 14 de maio de 2019, 21:05:58

Life is useful but when one is assassinated, death also becomes useful. A bullet-ridden death can often accomplish what life could not.
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Osho (Sex Matters-St. Martin's Griffin (2003))
- Seu destaque na página 135 | Posição 2062-2064 | Adicionado na data terça-feira, 14 de maio de 2019, 22:12:14

Like the preaching profession, the medical profession thrives on inner conflict, because a doctor’s livelihood depends on people catching diseases. A doctor treats patients outwardly, but inwardly he hopes they get sick. And when there is an epidemic, he thanks God for the business.
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Osho (Sex Matters-St. Martin's Griffin (2003))
- Seu destaque na página 138 | Posição 2109-2113 | Adicionado na data terça-feira, 14 de maio de 2019, 22:51:18

I am not a mahatma, and I certainly do not want to become a mahatma – that desire itself is a projection of a subtle, refined ego. I am a man, and that is good enough for me. Is it not enough, just being a man? Can a man not be happy without riding the shoulders of other men, without imposing himself on others, without acquiring power in one form or another? Can a man not be happy simply by remaining a man? In whatever position I find myself I am happy and contented.
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Osho (Sex Matters-St. Martin's Griffin (2003))
- Seu destaque na página 140 | Posição 2133-2139 | Adicionado na data quarta-feira, 15 de maio de 2019, 00:17:49

I have said you must strive for a continuous awareness of the glimpse of samadhi in coitus. One should try to grasp that point, that glimpse of samadhi which flashes like lightning in the midst of intercourse, which shimmers for a second like a will-o’-the-wisp and then vanishes. Your effort must be to know it, to become acquainted with it, to hold to it. If you can make the contact fully, even once, in that moment you will know that you are not a body, that you are bodiless. For that fraction of time you are not a body; in that moment you are transformed into something else: the body is left behind and you become the soul, your real self. If you have a glimpse of that glory even once, you can pursue it, through dhyana, through meditation, to establish a deep and lasting relationship with it. Then the path to samadhi is yours. And when it becomes part of your understanding, part of your knowledge and of your life, there will be no more room for lust.
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Osho (Sex Matters-St. Martin's Griffin (2003))
- Seu destaque na página 141 | Posição 2151-2151 | Adicionado na data quarta-feira, 15 de maio de 2019, 12:19:37

children just happen.
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Osho (Sex Matters-St. Martin's Griffin (2003))
- Seu destaque na página 141 | Posição 2148-2152 | Adicionado na data quarta-feira, 15 de maio de 2019, 12:19:56

I want to give him one more eye-opener, and you should also take note: Children can be born out of celibacy, but the entire purpose and meaning of producing children will have a new dimension. Lust is not the right vehicle for procreation – celibacy is the only medium discriminating enough. As it is now, the birth of a child is accidental: you move into sex with some other motive; children just happen. Children are uninvited guests, and you can only have as much love for these children as you have for unexpected visitors.
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Osho (Sex Matters-St. Martin's Griffin (2003))
- Seu destaque na página 141 | Posição 2148-2156 | Adicionado na data quarta-feira, 15 de maio de 2019, 12:23:07

I want to give him one more eye-opener, and you should also take note: Children can be born out of celibacy, but the entire purpose and meaning of producing children will have a new dimension. Lust is not the right vehicle for procreation – celibacy is the only medium discriminating enough. As it is now, the birth of a child is accidental: you move into sex with some other motive; children just happen. Children are uninvited guests, and you can only have as much love for these children as you have for unexpected visitors. And how are uninvited guests treated? You prepare beds for their comfort and you serve them food; you greet them politely and you pamper them – but everything is done out of etiquette; there is no feeling of love inside. Your constant thought is, ”When are these bores going to leave?” You treat unwanted children the same way, for the simple reason that you never really wanted them in the first place. You were after something else; they were simply by-products. Today’s children are not products, they are by-products. They are not produced, they come along with sex like the husks that appear with the corn.
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Osho (Sex Matters-St. Martin's Griffin (2003))
- Seu destaque na página 142 | Posição 2164-2170 | Adicionado na data quarta-feira, 15 de maio de 2019, 12:53:05

Men don’t want children either. A man may want children if he hasn’t any, but it is not because he loves children, it is because he loves his wealth. When a man wants a child, do not be misled into believing that his soul is anxious for a son, for a new and innocent human being. He has amassed his wealth by hard labor. Who knows whose hands it might fall into after his death! He needs an heir, one born out of his own blood, to save his wealth, to enjoy his estate. No one wants a child for the child’s sake. We try to save ourselves from them, but they simply come of their own accord. We just want to enjoy sex and a child drops in! These offspring are the by-products of sexuality. They are sick, they are weak, they are frail, they are ridden with anxiety.
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Osho (Sex Matters-St. Martin's Griffin (2003))
- Seu destaque na página 146 | Posição 2215-2234 | Adicionado na data sábado, 18 de maio de 2019, 08:30:30

The day children are born out of celibacy, out of a divine communion – you probably don’t like the sound of the phrase ”children by celibacy” but I am talking about a new concept, about a nobler possibility – the day children bloom out of celibacy, humanity will be so beautiful, so strong, so considerate, so energetic and so intelligent that the knowledge of the self, of the Overself, of the Universal Consciousness, won’t be very far away for anyone. Although this is difficult to imagine, let me illustrate with an example. If I tell a man suffering from insomnia that he will able to go to sleep the moment he lays his head on his pillow, he will most likely not believe me. He will tell me he always rolls over in bed, or sits up, or gets up to say his beads, or counts sheep, but that he cannot sleep. He will say I am a liar. He will ask how it is possible to go to sleep instantly, just by lying down. He will complain that, despite all kinds of experiments, he cannot sleep soundly, sometimes not sleep at all for a whole night. Thirty to forty per cent of the residents of New York City take sleeping-pills. And psychiatrists fear that in a hundred years nobody will be able to get to sleep naturally, that everyone will have to take tranquilizers when they go to bed. If this is the current state of mental health in New York, then the same thing will happen in India in another two hundred years. Indian leaders never lag far behind in copying foreigners. So we cannot be too far behind the New Yorkers. When we plagiarize everything else of theirs, how can we ignore this? So, in five hundred years’ time, it is quite possible that every man in the world will take a sleeping-pill before retiring. And immediately after he is born, an infant will want a tranquilizer instead of milk, because he won’t even have been at peace in his mother’s womb! Then it will be very difficult to convince people that, five hundred years before, people simply used to close their eyes and go to sleep without barbiturates. They will say it is not possible; they will ask how it could have been done. Similarly, it will be very difficult to convince people who have been born out of celibacy that people had once been dishonest, that there had once been thieves and murderers, that men had once committed suicide, that they had poisoned and stabbed each other, that they had waged war. They will also not believe that people had once been born out of a vulgar sexuality that went not one iota deeper than physical contact. A spiritual sex can evolve. A new life can begin for mankind.
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Osho (Sex Matters-St. Martin's Griffin (2003))
- Seu destaque na página 147 | Posição 2249-2250 | Adicionado na data sábado, 18 de maio de 2019, 08:46:18

that the sex inside each of us may become a vehicle to reach to superconsciousness.
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A Náusea (Jean-Paul Sartre)
- Seu destaque na página 7 | Posição 103-107 | Adicionado na data sábado, 18 de maio de 2019, 22:29:07

Se não estou equivocado, se todos os indícios que se acumulam são precursores de uma nova reviravolta em minha vida, então tenho medo. Não que minha vida seja rica, nem preciosa. Mas sinto medo do que vai nascer, se apoderar de mim — e me arrastar para onde? Terei que partir novamente ou abandonar minhas pesquisas, meu livro? Despertarei, dentro de alguns meses, dentro de alguns anos, alquebrado, decepcionado, em meio a novas ruínas? Gostaria de me entender com exatidão antes que seja tarde demais.
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A Náusea (Jean-Paul Sartre)
- Seu destaque na página 9 | Posição 134-134 | Adicionado na data sábado, 18 de maio de 2019, 22:46:16

Quando se vive sozinho, já nem mesmo se sabe o que é narrar: a verossimilhança desaparece junto com os amigos.
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A Náusea (Jean-Paul Sartre)
- Seu destaque na página 14 | Posição 209-210 | Adicionado na data sábado, 18 de maio de 2019, 23:28:14

Quando está sozinha nos quartos, ouço-a cantarolar para se impedir de pensar.
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A Náusea (Jean-Paul Sartre)
- Seu destaque na página 14 | Posição 212-214 | Adicionado na data sábado, 18 de maio de 2019, 23:32:56

Sofre com avareza. Também deve ser avara em relação a seus prazeres. Pergunto-me se algumas vezes não deseja se libertar dessa dor monótona, desses resmungos que recomeçam tão logo para de cantar, se não deseja sofrer muito de uma vez por todas, se afogar no desespero. Mas, de qualquer maneira, não poderia fazê-lo: está atada.
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Historia do Riso e do Escarnio (História do riso e do escárnio-Unesp (2003))
- Seu destaque na página 15 | Posição 220-226 | Adicionado na data domingo, 19 de maio de 2019, 19:49:16

Estudado com lupa há séculos, por todas as disciplinas, o riso esconde seu mistério. Alternadamente agressivo, sarcástico, escarnecedor, amigável, sardônico, angélico, tomando as formas da ironia, do humor, do burlesco, do grotesco, ele é multiforme, ambivalente, ambíguo. Pode expressar tanto a alegria pura quanto o triunfo maldoso, o orgulho ou a simpatia. É isso que faz sua riqueza e fascinação ou, às vezes, seu caráter inquietante, porque, segundo escreve Howard Bloch, “como Merlim, o riso é um fenômeno liminar, um produto das soleiras, ... o riso está a cavalo sobre uma dupla verdade. Serve ao mesmo tempo para afirmar e para subverter”. Na encruzilhada do físico e do psíquico, do individual e do social, do divino e do diabólico, ele flutua no equívoco, na indeterminação.
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Women (Charles Bukowski)
- Seu destaque na página 191 | Posição 2920-2922 | Adicionado na data terça-feira, 21 de maio de 2019, 20:47:21

That’s the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.
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Women (Charles Bukowski)
- Seu destaque na página 198 | Posição 3017-3022 | Adicionado na data terça-feira, 21 de maio de 2019, 21:20:17

I took my bottle and went to my bedroom. I undressed down to my shorts and went to bed. Nothing was ever in tune. People just blindly grabbed at whatever there was: communism, health foods, zen, surfing, ballet, hypnotism, group encounters, orgies, biking, herbs, Catholicism, weight-lifting, travel, withdrawal, vegetarianism, India, painting, writing, sculpting, composing, conducting, backpacking, yoga, copulating, gambling, drinking, hanging around, frozen yogurt, Beethoven, Bach, Buddha, Christ, TM, H, carrot juice, suicide, handmade suits, jet travel, New York City, and then it all evaporated and fell apart. People had to find things to do while waiting to die. I guess it was nice to have a choice.
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Annie Heminway (French Demystified-MGH (2007))
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Learning to Silence the Mind: Wellness Through Meditation (Osho)
- Seu destaque na página 4 | Posição 47-50 | Adicionado na data sexta-feira, 24 de maio de 2019, 17:08:35

Listening means: When you are hearing, you are only hearing and not doing anything else—no other thoughts in your mind, no clouds passing in your inner sky—so whatever is being said reaches you, as it is being said. There is no interference from your mind; it is not interpreted by you, by your prejudices; not clouded by anything that, right now, is passing within you—because all these are distortions.
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La Peste (Albert Camus)
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La Peste (Albert Camus)
- Seu destaque na página 1 | Posição 9-9 | Adicionado na data domingo, 26 de maio de 2019, 11:48:23

cité elle-même, on doit l’avouer, est laide. D’aspect tranquille, il faut quelque temps
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Learning to Silence the Mind: Wellness Through Meditation (Osho)
- Seu destaque na página 7 | Posição 101-102 | Adicionado na data domingo, 26 de maio de 2019, 18:31:43

But the king said, “You don’t understand me. There has never been any precedent because you have never operated on a man like the man you are going to operate upon.
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Learning to Silence the Mind: Wellness Through Meditation (Osho)
- Seu destaque na página 8 | Posição 113-114 | Adicionado na data domingo, 26 de maio de 2019, 18:33:17

It is just that when your mind is so focused on one thing, everything else falls out of its focus and you are unaware of it.
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Learning to Silence the Mind: Wellness Through Meditation (Osho)
- Seu destaque na página 12 | Posição 160-172 | Adicionado na data domingo, 26 de maio de 2019, 19:17:18

But religiousness cannot use concentration; religiousness cannot use contemplation either, because it is not concerned with any object. Whether the object is in the outside world or the object is in your mind—a thought, a theory, a philosophy—it doesn’t matter; it is an object. Religious concern is with the one who concentrates, with the one who contemplates. Who is this one? Now, you cannot concentrate on it. Who will concentrate on it?—you are it. You cannot contemplate it because who is going to contemplate? You cannot divide yourself into two parts so that you put one part in front of your mind, and the other part starts contemplating. There is no possibility of dividing your consciousness into two parts. And even if there were any possibility—there is none, but just for argument’s sake I am saying if there were any possibility to divide your consciousness in two—then the one that contemplates about the other is you; the one being contemplated is not you. The other is never you. Or, in other words: The object is never you. You are irreducibly the subject. There is no way to turn you into an object. It is just like a mirror. The mirror can reflect you, the mirror can reflect everything in the world, but can you manage to make this mirror reflect itself? You cannot put this mirror in front of itself, by the time you put it in front of itself it is no longer there. The mirror itself cannot mirror itself. Consciousness is exactly a mirror. You can use it as concentration for some object. You can use it as contemplation for some subject matter.
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Learning to Silence the Mind: Wellness Through Meditation (Osho)
- Seu destaque na página 12 | Posição 173-174 | Adicionado na data domingo, 26 de maio de 2019, 19:18:18

dhyana
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Learning to Silence the Mind: Wellness Through Meditation (Osho)
- Seu destaque na página 12 | Posição 177-179 | Adicionado na data domingo, 26 de maio de 2019, 19:20:21

Sanskrit was the language of the priesthood, of the Brahmins, and it was one of the basic parts of Buddha’s revolution that the priesthood should be overthrown; it had no business to exist. Man can directly connect with existence, it need not be through an agent. In fact it cannot be through a mediator.
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Learning to Silence the Mind: Wellness Through Meditation (Osho)
- Seu destaque na página 17 | Posição 254-255 | Adicionado na data domingo, 26 de maio de 2019, 21:54:00

Buddha used jhana; it is a Pali transformation of dhyana.
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Learning to Silence the Mind: Wellness Through Meditation (Osho)
- Seu destaque na página 18 | Posição 268-269 | Adicionado na data domingo, 26 de maio de 2019, 21:59:10

Buddha revolted against Sanskrit and used Pali. In Pali, dhyana is jhana. Jhana reached China and became ch’an.
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Learning to Silence the Mind: Wellness Through Meditation (Osho)
- Seu destaque na página 18 | Posição 270-271 | Adicionado na data domingo, 26 de maio de 2019, 21:59:36

When it reached Japan, it became Zen; but it is the same word, dhyana.
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