These three things are to be taken note of: the lowest love is sex - it is physical - and the highest refinement of love is compassion. Sex is below love, compassion is above love; love is exactly in the middle.

Very few people know what love is. Ninety-nine percent of people, unfortunately, think sexuality is love - it is not. Sexuality is very animal; it certainly has the potential of growing into love, but it is not actual love, only a potential....

If you become aware and alert, meditative, then sex can be transformed into love. And if your meditativeness becomes total, absolute, love can be transformed into compassion. Sex is the seed, love is the flower, compassion is the fragrance.

Buddha has defined compassion as love plus meditation. When your love is not just a desire for the other, when your love is not only a need, when your love is a sharing, when your love is not that of a beggar but an emperor, when your love is not asking for something in return but is ready only to give - to give for the sheer joy of giving - then add meditation to it and the pure fragrance is released. That is compassion; compassion is the highest phenomenon.

Buddha has chosen one of the really very potential words - shunyata. The English word, the English equivalent, "nothingness", is not such a beautiful word. That's why I would like to make it "no-thingness" - because the nothing is not just nothing, it is all. It is vibrant with all possibilities. It is potential, absolute potential. It is unmanifest yet, but it contains all.

In the beginning is nature, in the end is nature, so why in the middle do you make so much fuss? Why, in the middle, becoming so worried, so anxious, so ambitious - why create such despair? Nothingness to nothingness is the whole journey.

OSHO take it easy

People are afraid, very much afraid of those who know themselves. They have a certain power, a certain aura and a certain magnetism, a charisma that can take out alive, young people from the traditional imprisonment....

The enlightened man cannot be enslaved - that is the difficulty - and he cannot be imprisoned.... Every genius who has known something of the inner is bound to be a little difficult to be absorbed; he is going to be an upsetting force. The masses don't want to be disturbed, even though they may be in misery; they are in misery, but they are accustomed to the misery. And anybody who is not miserable looks like a stranger.

The enlightened man is the greatest stranger in the world; he does not seem to belong to anybody. No organization confines him, no community, no society, no nation.

"You're the closest to heaven that I'll ever be" (Iris-Goo Goo Dolls)

Invention of Love (2010) - Animated Short Film

The Monk and The Fish ( Le Moine et Le Poisson )/Michaël Dudok de Wit

Charles Baudelaire - La muse malade

To understand the meaning of Avalokiteshvara's six-syllable Mantra a thorough and detailed interpretation should be sought from commentaries and the oral explanations of noble scholars, who have extensive understanding of the meaning of tantra. Here, I will just give the gist of it.

The syllables of the Mantra are, Om-ma-ni-pad-me-hum. The first syllable OM represents the Form Body of a Buddha, and the last syllable HUM represents his Truth Body. MANI means wishfulilling gem. symbolizing the pure Wisdom that has realized emptiness. The vowel E ending the word PADME has been described as a call to someone. It is essentially a short symbolic supplication to Avalokiteshvara saying,

'O, Supreme Avalokiteshvara, you have attained the two Bodies of a Buddha through the dual path of wisdom and method, indicated by the jewel and lotus you hold, please lead all sentient beings to attain the two Bodies of Buddha as you have done!

SHE - ELVIS COSTELLO

The human capacity to care for others isn’t something trivial or something to be taken for granted. Rather, it is something we should cherish. Compassion is a marvel of human nature, a precious inner resource, and the foundation of our well-being and the harmony of our societies. If we seek happiness for ourselves, we should practice compassion: and if we seek happiness for others, we should also practice compassion.

Μην φαντάζεστε πως η Ευτυχία θα έρθει αν είστε τυφλός.
Είναι σαν να σας έδιναν ένα κλειστό σάκο και να σας έλεγαν:
Εμπρός, βάλτε το χέρι, υπάρχουν απ΄όλα μέσα σ΄αυτό το σάκο,
πάρτε ό,τι σας αρέσει.
Και να, χώνετε το χέρι στα τυφλά και τότε μια οχιά σας δαγκώνει και πεθαίνετε.
Πιστέψτε με, αν είστε τυφλός, θα υπάρχει πάντοτε μια οχιά που θα σας δαγκώνει».

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

Έχει και η ψυχή τον δικό της κονιορτό που εάν σηκωθεί μέσα μας αέρας, αλίμονο. Oι ορμές χτυπάνε στα παράθυρα, τα τζάμια θρυμματίζονται. Λίγοι ξέρουν ότι ο υπερθετικός στα αισθήματα σχηματίζεται με το φως, όχι με τη δύναμη. Kι ότι χρειάζεται χάδι εκεί που βάζουν μαχαίρι. Ότι ένας κοιτώνας με τη μυστική συνεννόηση των σωμάτων μάς παρακολουθεί παντού και μας παραπέμπει στην αγιότητα χωρίς συγκατάβαση.

A! όταν η στιγμή φτάσει να καθίσουμε κι εμείς πάνω στο πεζούλι κάποιας Aγίας Πρέκλας εν μέσω αγριοσυκών, μορεών με ερυθρούς καρπούς, εις έρημον τόπον, απόκρημνον ακτήν, τότε η μικρή Kουμπώ μ' ένα κερί στο χέρι θα σηκωθεί στις μύτες των ποδιών να φτάσει εκεί ψηλά, μέσα στον αναστεναγμό μας, όλα τα εύφλεκτα: πάθη, πείσματα, φωνές οργής, μυριάδες έντομα χρωματιστούλια που να λαμπαδιάσει ο τόπος!

Η Λύπη ομορφαίνει επειδή της μοιάζουμε.
Ελύτης

“Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate, or despise, serves to defeat us in the end.”
Henry Miller

The human capacity to care for others isn’t something trivial or something to be taken for granted. Rather, it is something we should cherish. Compassion is a marvel of human nature, a precious inner resource, and the foundation of our well-being and the harmony of our societies. If we seek happiness for ourselves, we should practice compassion: and if we seek happiness for others, we should also practice compassion.