Reflections: Wanting to Believe
"If you've ever wanted to believe something, ask yourself where that desire comes from. Hint: it's not the desire simply to believe what's true."
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Treasures: The Tears of Dostoevsky's Joy
This page contains selections of Fyodor Dostoevsky's theme of tears of joy in The Brother's Karamazov. This theme is referenced by Osho in Notes of a Madman, in which Osho exclaims that he has reached the heights of Dostoevsky's rapturous ecstasy.
Treasures: Zossima Consoles A Weeping Peasant Woman
"But here is one from afar." He pointed to a woman by no means old but very thin and wasted, with a face not merely sunburnt but almost blackened by exposure. She was kneeling and gazing with a fixed stare at the elder; there was something almost frenzied
Treasures: Selections of Zossima's Last Instructions
(h) Can a Man judge his Fellow Creatures? Faith to the End.
Remember particularly that you cannot be a judge of anyone. For no one can judge a criminal until he recognises that he is just such a criminal as the man standing before him, and that he perhaps is