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Intuition: Knowing Beyond Logic

(Osho Insights for a new way of living )

Osho

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Intuition deals with the difference between the intellectual, logical mind and the more encompassing realm of spirit. Logic is how the mind knows reality, intuition is how the spirit experiences reality. Osho's discussion of these matters is wonderfully lucid, occasionally funny, and thoroughly engrossing.

All people have a natural capacity for intuition, but often social conditioning and formal education work against it. People are taught to ignore their instincts rather than to understand and use them as a foundation for individual growth and development-and in the process they undermine the very roots of the innate wisdom that is meant to flower into intuition.

In this volume, Osho pinpoints exactly what intuition is and gives guidelines for how to identify its functioning in others and ourselves. You will learn to distinguish between genuine intuitive insight and the "wishful thinking" that can often lead to mistaken choices and unwanted consequences. Includes many specific exercises and meditations designed to nourish and support each individual's natural intuitive gifts.

OSHO challenges readers to examine and break free of the conditioned belief systems and prejudices that limit their capacity to experience life in all its richness. He has been described by the Sunday Times of London as one of the "1000 Makers of the 20th Century" and by Sunday Mid-Day (India) as one of the ten people-along with Gandhi, Nehru, and Buddha-who have changed the destiny of India. More than a decade after his death in 1990, the influence of his teachings continues to expand, reaching seekers of all ages in virtually every country of the world.

Intuition deals with the difference between the intellectual, logical mind and the more encompassing realm of spirit. Logic is how the mind knows reality, intuition is how the spirit experiences reality. Osho's discussion of these matters is wonderfully lucid, occasionally funny, and thoroughly engrossing. All people have a natural capacity for intuition, but often social conditioning and formal education work against it. People are taught to ignore their instincts rather than to understand and use them as a foundation for individual growth and development-and in the process they undermine the very roots of the innate wisdom that is meant to flower into intuition. In this volume, Osho pinpoints exactly what intuition is and gives guidelines for how to identify its functioning in others and ourselves. You will learn to distinguish between genuine intuitive insight and the "wishful thinking" that can often lead to mistaken choices and unwanted consequences. Includes many specific exercises and meditations designed to nourish and support each individual's natural intuitive gifts. ...more

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Nov 18, 2015 Glenn Russell rated it it was amazing

Osho is fantastic. At the moment I'm listening and committing to memory a number of string quartets, a most rewarding and energizing experience. What is required in doing this is not reason or logic but intuition, which reminded me of this inspirational book by Osho. I started to reread and couldn't stop. I wanted to share a few of my reflections.

“To know means to be silent, utterly silent, so you can hear the still, small voice within. To know means to drop the mind. When you are absolutely
Osho is fantastic. At the moment I'm listening and committing to memory a number of string quartets, a most rewarding and energizing experience. What is required in doing this is not reason or logic but intuition, which reminded me of this inspirational book by Osho. I started to reread and couldn't stop. I wanted to share a few of my reflections.

“To know means to be silent, utterly silent, so you can hear the still, small voice within. To know means to drop the mind. When you are absolutely still, unmoving, nothing wavers in you, the doors open. You are part of this mysterious existence. You know it by becoming part of it, by becoming a participant in it. That is knowing.” ---------- Reminds me of Nietzsche’s Zarathustra urging us to flee from the flies of the marketplace; “You’ve been deafened by the noise of the great men and stung but the stings of the little men. Flee into your silence and solitude.” There comes a time when we have to turn off the TV and all the gadgets and simply rest in silence. There are few practices more refreshing.

“Intellect is your mind. Instinct is your body. And just as instinct functions perfectly on behalf of the body, intuition functions perfectly as far as your consciousness is concerned. Intellect is just between these two—a passage to be passed, a bridge to be crossed. ----------- This is a critical point that many people just don’t get: intuition is not a denial of reason or the opposite of reason, intuition transcends reason as, for example, when we look out at the ocean and feel a deep peace and oneness with the world or when we listen to a deeply moving piece of music.

“If the left hemisphere of the brain goes on dominating you, you will live a successful life—so successful that by the time you are forty you will have ulcers; by the time you are forty-five, you will have had at least one or two heart attacks. ---------- I vividly recall a friend of mine telling me he took everyone around him - friends, family, associates, people he met on the street - for granted and was focused on making money and being a great success in business. He then had a massive heart attack. He said when he was taken to the hospital in an ambulance, he appreciated people for the first time. Changed his life completely.

“Reason is an effort to know the unknown and intuition is the happening of the unknowable. To penetrate the unknowable is possible, but to explain it is not. The feeling is possible, the explanation is not.” ---------- Case in point: aesthetic experience. When creating in writing, music or the visual arts, we can’t be too conceptual since too much thinking can hold us back. I recall that quote from Louis Armstrong: “If you have to ask what jazz is, you’ll never know.”

“Because of the unknowable, life means something. When everything is known, then everything is flat. You will be fed up, bored.” ---------- Joseph Campbell reflected how the meaning of life is overemphasized, that is, figuring out the meaning of life isn’t really our prime question. The prime question we face is how we are going to live in a way that we feel completely alive. What I personally enjoy above Joseph Campbell’s words are the emphasis on ‘the way we feel’. In our modern world there is much too much disregard and disrespect for feelings and sensations. If we can relax into feelings and ongoing sensations, a rich, creamy many-textured world opens up.

Osho Art - Osho created a vivid work of art out of his own signature. ...more

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May 26, 2010 Alka Arya rated it really liked it

Intelligence is the inborn capacity to see, to perceive. Every child is born intelligent, then made stupid by the society. We educate him in stupidity, and sooner or later he graduates in stupidity.

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Mar 23, 2010 Alefia rated it it was amazing

When I picked this book, I must admit I was quite skeptical as to what influence will it have on me. And for me a good book is not what I read, it is a book which reads me. I was in complete awe after finishing it. This book definitely makes you break free the shackles of the rigid mindset that keeps your life grounded in the complexities of everyday living. You never get to lift your feet from the ground realities; fly with the wings of your imagination is pure fiction. Osho just dissolves ...more

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Sep 07, 2009 Adrienne S. rated it it was amazing

WOW! Super amazing. If you ever wondering why your logical brain can't figure out intuition, this book will tell you why!!! Your rational mind can not accept or understand anything that exists above it. In other words, your intuition is above your intellect. Bottom line: so don't cling to what you know logically, cause what you don't know (intuition) is stronger than what you do!!

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Nov 11, 2012 Sach Singh rated it it was amazing

Osho... True to form :)

Like many of Osho's books, this one is about what the title concludes, and yet also... not (or at least not in the way some readers might be expecting). He sometimes makes creative leaps into seemingly-unrelated content, but it always comes together for me at some point when I can see the bigger picture he is pointing to. There is a lot more to this book than most books on intuition, and yet this book is tiny! If you're looking for one of those quick "psychic development" ...more

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Jun 29, 2009 Atul Sabnis rated it really liked it

Recommended to Atul by: Sunil

Shelves: all-i-own, spiritual, philosophy

It was the most innocent pick-up of the year, I think. When I picked up Intuition: Knowing Beyond Logic, by Osho, you could say, it was intuitive.

I am amused and smiling as I write the review. One of the resonating themes of the books is to let go of the shackles of the belief system(s) that you have adorned, imbibed and ingrained over the years. Whatever these may be - religious, spiritual, social or political.

Osho says in a section of the book - to be in the moment and not necessarily agree or ...more

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Jul 24, 2018 Yelda Basar Moers rated it it was amazing

Shelves: spirituality, mysticism, inspiration-mind-body, philosophy, mind-body, 2018-reading-challenge, life-purpose

This is a beautiful book and the most unique, penetrating and effective book about intuition that I have ever read. And I believe the most truthful. Because OSHO, who many refer to as a rebel mystic and philosopher for his bold and controversial ideas, shares a different take on intuition. He guides the reader to how intuition works with a meditative and spiritual perspective and how it cannot be explained or diagramed. Anything you are thinking about is not intuition, he says. Intuition is when ...more

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Jan 29, 2013 Tony Kaldas rated it it was amazing

Osho as usual is a person who always gives you the truth in your face!

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Jan 02, 2011 Dan S. rated it it was amazing

One of the best books I've ever read. It helped me tremendously with my life and outlook. Osho can be provocative and downright confrontational in a lot of his writing but I found intuition very affirming and helpful. Trusting oneself is a lifelong quest that should be pursued.

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Jul 14, 2012 Cassandra Stroehmer rated it it was amazing

One of my favorite books of all time. Simple, honest, profound... Life changing.

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Jul 16, 2014 Judy Phin rated it it was amazing

Listening and following your Intuition is something that is never taught in schools or anywhere really... this book opens up the idea of your putting trust in your inner guide. Very interesting read!

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Apr 07, 2013 Suzy rated it it was amazing

Reviewing this book will never do it justice.

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Dec 01, 2015 Carla rated it did not like it

I'm very disappointed. I had never read a book from Osho before and probably won't do it again.

His views are very radical and often based in a very black and white understanding of the world. Also, his arguments are very biased and some are even contradictory. Honestly, I just don't see how this book could change anyone's life for the better.

In addition, his speech is very anger based (just for reference, I read the book in Portuguese), which I think just shows that he is not at all enlightened. ...more

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Nov 30, 2015 Monoshita rated it did not like it

It was a waste of time. #sorrynotsorry

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Sep 21, 2019 Jane Phoenix rated it did not like it

Umm. Wow, okay. I am so pissed, I expected so much from this.

If I could, I would rate this with 0 stars. No, -1. I still can't believe how bad this is.

I started reading this with enthusiasm as I wanted to learn more about intuition, and this seemed like the right pick. I knew little about Osho before this, I have only seen his name under some quotes I liked, and they seemed profound and spiritual. But after reading the actual philosophy of this man, I wonder if he has actually written any of ...more

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Jan 25, 2016 Sujata Sahni added it

soho characterises the new human being as "Zorba the Buddha", capable of enjoying both the earthly pleasures of Zorba the Greek and the silent serenity of Gautama Buddha. According to reason, there are two realms of existence, the known and the unknown. Instinct is what belongs to the animal past, intellect is human, it is our present. Intuition on the other hand opens its doors through meditation. Instinct does not hear, it is deaf. Intellect will hear and philosophize. Intuition is a seer, it soho characterises the new human being as "Zorba the Buddha", capable of enjoying both the earthly pleasures of Zorba the Greek and the silent serenity of Gautama Buddha. According to reason, there are two realms of existence, the known and the unknown. Instinct is what belongs to the animal past, intellect is human, it is our present. Intuition on the other hand opens its doors through meditation. Instinct does not hear, it is deaf. Intellect will hear and philosophize. Intuition is a seer, it does not think. It sees the truth. Instinct is the power of unconscious nature, intuition is in the hands of the super conscious universe. Intellect is of the head, it it taught by others. It is not inborn. Intelligence is inborn. It is your very being, your very nature. Intelligence dies in imitating others. The animals got together in a forest one day and decided to start a school. The rabbit insisted that running should be part of the curriculum, the bird insisted on flying, the fish on swimming, the squirrel on perpendicular tree climbing. They insisted that all animals take all subjects. Although the rabbit was getting an A in running, perpendicular tree climbing was a problem for him. He kept falling over backward. Pretty soon he was brain damaged and could not run any more. The bird was beautiful at flying, but when it came to burrowing in the ground, he kept breaking his beak. The moment you compare yourself to others, you lose your natural potential. You will lose your clarity and vision. Intelligence is to relate with reality unprepared. Repitition is stupidity, it is cheap because you need not learn. Learning is arduous. Intelligence is the capacity to be reborn again and again. To die to the past is intelligence, and to live in the present is intelligence. All great discoveries, all great breakthroughs have come from beyond instinct and intellect. From Archimedes, to Albert Einstein to Marie Curie, scientific discoveries have arisen not out of the mind but beyond it, in meditation.. In Carlos Castaneda's book , Don Juan gives him an experiment . He asks him to run on a dark night, on a hilly track, dangerous, without any light. He says, you simply believe in the inner guide and start running. Don't walk, run! Castaneda found it simply suicidal, but his master ran off like a wild animal and then came running back. Castaneda gathered courage and felt that if the old man could do it, why not he. You only are when you stop thinking, the moment you stop thinking, the inner happens. The moment you start using reason to convince your inner guide is when reluctance starts creeping in. Great scients say that whenever a great discovery is made, it is never made by the mind but by the inner guide. It was when Madame Curie decided to stop worrying about the problem after 3 years of painstaking effort to solve a problem that the inner guide awakened. You cannot reach a truth through a master, you can reach only to the inner master through a master and then the inner master leads you to the truth. A guru will push you down from your intellect to your instinct, from your reasoning to your intuitive force, from your argumentative mind to your trusting guide. ...more

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Dec 28, 2015 Javi Jara rated it really liked it

Beyond mind is the no-mind. If you develop your no-mind, you will get in touch with your intuition.

Think about this: the mind wants you to be successful and the intuition wants you to be happy. You need to develop both.

The school system helps you to to develop your mind. The logic one. And that mind wants success first to be happy. But life does not work in that way, because sometimes success is not reach, or at least not in your expectations and you feel sad.

On the other hand, the no-mind ...more

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Aug 05, 2015 Maya Kenova added it

This is not the typical self-help book. That's a book that can truly turn your life upside down and help you go back on the right track after all the harm educational institutions and society as a whole have inflicted upon us. It is an eye-opening read and one that propels you towards saving what you label, YOUR life.

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Jan 18, 2012 Lucas Lundin rated it it was amazing

There are few "spiritual", "mystic", meditational books that I can read page to page and agree with everything being said- I mean that's rare in any book. Osho does a great job of seperating "fact from fiction" and the overbearing traditions from long practiced meditations. Taught me great insight on the silent side the of the mind.

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Aug 14, 2008 Sooraj Raju rated it it was amazing

I had always believed in intuition. But was always in an imbalance with the inner voice and the sense of reasoning. Osho has given me enough insight to be comfortable with my intuitions and to follow it in life as you follow your instincts.

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Sep 21, 2013 Elbe rated it it was amazing

In a way very encouraging book... so all that I knew as a child was true, so all that my mother taught me was true... it just went a bit amiss, when the society finally hit in. And good... that I've diced already few years ago to follow my heart again... :)

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Jun 13, 2011 Munkhbayar Baatarkhuu rated it it was amazing

This was dastantik. Here goes the pringes on the courtling poreas, and the beauty of the morning peackot surbounds mene heart. No destination, but direction. There is nothing higher than human consciousness and nothing more beautiful than this life. Oh deur per mene sanchitos! Laphrim.

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Aug 27, 2011 Karthick Rajan R rated it it was amazing

Really nice book to show "What is Intelligence, Intuition, Instinct and intellect was ?"

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Sep 11, 2014 Sittaraman Gunasegaran rated it really liked it

I think this book would be confusing for the starters .. it will be a good book for seekers !
It is a treat and definitely confuse you !

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May 21, 2012 Corry Hinckley rated it it was amazing

This book made me stop pretending I didn't know things I had known all along. I couldn't continue to live like I was unaware because it felt ridiculous to be dishonest after reading Osho.

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Jun 30, 2014 Jaspreet Kaur rated it it was amazing

The best. Only Osho could have explained it this well. A must read. :)
They say there is a right time for every book to be read. Mine came a few days ago.

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Sep 24, 2015 Chinmay K rated it it was amazing

Superb explaination on the 3 layers of consciousness humans possess. Body, mind and spirit.

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Dec 24, 2019 Troy Zaher marked it as did-not-finish

Shelves: academic, nonfiction

There is not much that I have to say that isn’t in this person’s review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

I read this on recommendation of my friend. And after reading it partway through I decided it was best to not finish.

He rambles in pseudo intellectual circles that clearly have no real research behind them. Everything feels anecdotal. And a lot of his talking in circles is just typical mysterious old guy trying to sound wise.

I believe that there are some concepts that can be true There is not much that I have to say that isn’t in this person’s review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

I read this on recommendation of my friend. And after reading it partway through I decided it was best to not finish.

He rambles in pseudo intellectual circles that clearly have no real research behind them. Everything feels anecdotal. And a lot of his talking in circles is just typical mysterious old guy trying to sound wise.

I believe that there are some concepts that can be true about intuition, such as it being able to tell us more about what we want than our active consciousness. Or even sometimes being able to predict a concept due to the subconscious mind working faster then the conscious one for some people. But there is more to life than those things, and the dismissal of intellect is wild to me; as intuition could never logically be an infallible device. Unlike intellect which is a much safer and more reliable means of approaching life. Intellect is also often going to lead to a happier and more helpful life, by the mere fact that thinking before you act allows your actions to have more gravity to them. Additionally, he doesn’t spend much time actually explaining the benefits of intuition I laid out, but instead relies on the idea that Intuition is good simply because it feels good.

But the philosophical fallacies are not the main problem this book has; as I believe much of his writing on the topic can be enticing to many people, and even in some small ways it can be helpful (particularly to those who view it as a reflection of ideals, rather than as a learning tool). The main problem is that it promotes a lot of antiestablishment propaganda without ever really backing up the reason for those claims, especially in regards to the main topic of intuition. Essentially saying to do away with society, and disregard other people who disagree with you and your intuition, merely for the fact that they have different ideals.

Overall I think Osho is a pretty manipulative anarchist who uses feel-good tactics to create pseudo intellectual arguments. That being said I’m sure there are things you could take away from this (if anything simply the feel good circle talking can be fun to listen to if you’re into that), so long as you don’t take the propaganda to heart. ...more

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Feb 08, 2019 Austėja Šidlauskaitė rated it it was amazing

This book is a philosophy about our mind, consciousness, intuition, creativity and logic and all the relations among them. This book gave me inspiration to go and live in moments, that I'm not familiar with, just to see how my logic-based mind turns off, and creative, intuitive mind takes a lead.

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Sep 15, 2015 Julie rated it really liked it

Shelves: spirituality, mind-expansion, non-fic

This was unlike any other book I have read. Osho, while a controversial figure, has some interesting and thought-provoking ideas about intuition and the makeup of the mind, body and soul. He argues that intellect is a construct of society that gets in the way of connecting with divine intelligence, or intuition. There is definitely a focus on zen in his ideas. There weren't a lot of strategies for connecting with intuition; instead, the book focused more on the analysis of what intuition is. ...more

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Rajneesh (born Chandra Mohan Jain, 11 December 1931 – 19 January 1990) and latter rebranded as Osho was leader of the Rajneesh movement. During his lifetime he was viewed as a controversial new religious movement leader and mystic.

In the 1960s he traveled throughout India as a public speaker and was a vocal critic of socialism, Mahatma Gandhi, and Hindu religious orthodoxy.

Rajneesh emphasized the Rajneesh (born Chandra Mohan Jain, 11 December 1931 – 19 January 1990) and latter rebranded as Osho was leader of the Rajneesh movement. During his lifetime he was viewed as a controversial new religious movement leader and mystic.

In the 1960s he traveled throughout India as a public speaker and was a vocal critic of socialism, Mahatma Gandhi, and Hindu religious orthodoxy.

Rajneesh emphasized the importance of meditation, mindfulness, love, celebration, courage, creativity and humor—qualities that he viewed as being suppressed by adherence to static belief systems, religious tradition and socialization.

In advocating a more open attitude to human sexuality he caused controversy in India during the late 1960s and became known as "the sex guru".

In 1970, Rajneesh spent time in Mumbai initiating followers known as "neo-sannyasins". During this period he expanded his spiritual teachings and commented extensively in discourses on the writings of religious traditions, mystics, and philosophers from around the world. In 1974 Rajneesh relocated to Pune, where an ashram was established and a variety of therapies, incorporating methods first developed by the Human Potential Movement, were offered to a growing Western following. By the late 1970s, the tension between the ruling Janata Party government of Morarji Desai and the movement led to a curbing of the ashram's development and a back taxes claim estimated at $5 million.

In 1981, the Rajneesh movement's efforts refocused on activities in the United States and Rajneesh relocated to a facility known as Rajneeshpuram in Wasco County, Oregon. Almost immediately the movement ran into conflict with county residents and the state government, and a succession of legal battles concerning the ashram's construction and continued development curtailed its success.

In 1985, in the wake of a series of serious crimes by his followers, including a mass food poisoning attack with Salmonella bacteria and an aborted assassination plot to murder U.S. Attorney Charles H. Turner, Rajneesh alleged that his personal secretary Ma Anand Sheela and her close supporters had been responsible. He was later deported from the United States in accordance with an Alford plea bargain.[

After his deportation, 21 countries denied him entry. He ultimately returned to India and a revived Pune ashram, where he died in 1990. Rajneesh's ashram, now known as OSHO International Meditation Resort and all associated intellectual property, is managed by the Zurich registered Osho International Foundation (formerly Rajneesh International Foundation). Rajneesh's teachings have had a notable impact on Western New Age thought, and their popularity has increased markedly since his death. ...more

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“The very word intuition has to be understood. You know the word tuition—tuition comes from outside, somebody teaches you, the tutor. Intuition means something that arises within your being; it is your potential, that’s why it is called intuition. Wisdom is never borrowed, and that which is borrowed is never wisdom. Unless you have your own wisdom, your own vision, your own clarity, your own eyes to see, you will not be able to understand the mystery of existence.” — 9 likes

“The people of the heart—the painters, the poets, the musicians, the dancers, the actors—are all irrational. They create great beauty, they are great lovers, but they are absolutely unfit in a society that is arranged by the head. Your artists are thought by your society to be almost outcast, a little bit crazy, an insane type of people. Nobody wants his or her children to become musicians or painters or dancers. Everybody wants them to be doctors, engineers, scientists, because those professions pay. Painting, poetry, dance, are dangerous, risky—you may end up just a beggar on the street, playing on your flute.” — 8 likes

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