Clown

life is a game, and everyone's playing the part of a clown.

A city with 11 gates

This human body is called a city with eleven gates, where the eternal unborn Spirit dwells. These gates are the two eyes, two ears, two nostrils, the mouth, the navel, the two lower apertures, and the imperceptible opening at the top of the head. The Self or Atman holds the position of ruler in this city; and being above the modifications of birth, death and all human imperfections, It is not affected by the changes of the physical organism. As the intelligent man through constant thought and meditation realizes the splendour of this Supreme Spirit, he becomes free from that part of his nature which grieves and suffers, and thus he attains liberation.

Two sides of a coin

Anybody who can be a good pretender, a hypocrite, will become your leader politically, will become your priest

religiously. All that he needs is hypocrisy, all that he needs is cunningness, all that he needs is a facade to

hide behind. Your politicians live double lives, your priests live double lives--one from the front door, the other

from the back door. And the back-door life is their real life. Those front-door smiles are just false, those faces

looking so innocent are just cultivated. If you want to see the reality of the politician you will have to see him

from his back door. There he is in his nudity, as he is, and so is the priest. These two kinds of cunning people

have dominated humanity. And they found out very early on that if you want to dominate humanity, make it weak, make

it feel guilty, make it feel unworthy. Destroy its dignity, take all glory away from it, humiliate it. And they

have found such subtle ways of humiliation that they don't come in the picture at all; they leave it to you to

humiliate yourself, to destroy yourself. They have taught you a kind of slow suicide.

choicelessness

When it is dawn, it is dawn. When it is dusk, it is dusk. There is no question of preference. Drop the choice and you are free everywhere. Independence can be only in choicelessness. So when you are young, it is beautiful; when you are a child, it is beautiful; when you are old, it is beautiful; when you are dying, it is beautiful--because you are never separate from the whole, you are just a wave in the ocean.

The wave in the ocean can start thinking of itself as an individual--then there will be problem. The wave in the ocean never thinks of itself as separate, so wherever the deep-sea is taking her, she is readily, happily, cheerfully moving in that direction

democracy

“Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.”

“The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.”

“A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.”

“Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.”

“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.”

“Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.”

“Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.”

“Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner”