#20

found via wolfgirltumblr

all we can do is be with ourselves and take personal responsibility. in these revolutionary times. the ones i have been dreaming about. we can very easily blame others for what they are doing, or not doing.but it must always come back to us. with each individual being conscious.

i choose meditation.

OSHO sums it up for me below:

Man lives in unconsciousness. He lives like a robot. The major part of his being is in darkness; just a little bit has come out of the darkness, just the tip of the iceberg — and that too is very fragile. At any moment it goes back again into darkness. Somebody insults you and you lose your
consciousness. It is very fragile. You become unconscious, you start behaving in an unconscious way, and later on you yourself recognize it. You wonder ‘How did I do all this?’ You start saying ‘It happened in spite of me. I never wanted to do it.’ People have done things in anger which only insane people can do — and they were not insane, they were as sane as anybody else, but in anger they lose consciousness, in passion they lose consciousness. There are a thousand and one situations every day when we lose consciousness, so that small portion of consciousness is not very effective either. If one is alert about using it rightly, the only purpose is to meditate with that small piece of consciousness that you have now, because through meditation, more and more of the unconscious starts becoming conscious, more and more of your hidden darkness starts disappearing. Right now ninety per cent is unconscious, ten per cent is conscious. As you meditate, slowly, fifteen per cent becomes conscious, twenty per cent becomes conscious. The moment there is at least fifty per cent of consciousness and fifty per cent of unconsciousness, then you can rely upon your consciousness because now there is a balance; the unconscious cannot easily take over.