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”

pretending

Everybody is pretending. Authenticity is lost, truth is lost, everybody is trying to show that he is somebody else. Just look at yourself: you are pretending to be somebody else. And you can be only yourself--there is no other way, there has never been, there is no possibility that you can be anybody else. You will remain yourself. You can enjoy it and bloom, or you can wither away if you condemn it.

Nothingness to nothingness is the whole journey.