| Thomas Carlyle once said about one of his friends that he was born a man and died a grocer. Everybody is born great and dies very small. Everybody is born like a god and almost always dies like a dog. What happens in between? Why is man crippled by life? One should hope that man grows to greater dimensions, grows to greater heights, grows to greater life – what Jesus calls ‘life abundant' – but that rarely happens. As it happens usually, man starts shrinking. The moment man is born he starts shrinking, becoming smaller and smaller and smaller. This has to be understood... --Osho Come Follow to You, Vol. 2, ch. 5 |
Carlyle, Thomas
1795-1881 86 years
1795-1881 86 years
Scottish essayist, satirist, historian...
strict Calvinist Christian upbringing
married
supported some liberal views, like the Transcendentalist
movement, but also had conservative tendencies, like
supporting slavery.
strict Calvinist Christian upbringing
married
supported some liberal views, like the Transcendentalist
movement, but also had conservative tendencies, like
supporting slavery.
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