Marilyn
Monroe
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nothing fails like success |
nothing fails like success |
nothing fails
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nothing fails
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nothing fails
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nothing fails like success |

Marilyn Monroe
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Marilyn
Monroe was found dead from an overdose of sleeping pills on August 5, 1962, by
her housekeeper Eunice Murray. She was naked, atop her telephone on her bed,
with unhealthy levels of barbiturates in her bloodstream. But the typical signs
of barbiturate overdose were completely absent.
Supposedly, Monroe had had an abortion at Cedars of Lebanon
Hospital on the 20th of July. It has been said that she had as many as a dozen
abortions over the years. But certainly it is well known that she was
terminated by her job at Fox Studio. And there were problems with her
relationship with Robert F Kennedy; he was not returning her calls.
Evidence is missing, including the original autopsy, her
supposed suicide note (which mentioned suicide not at all), and original police
report. Furthermore, the first officer at the death scene has publicly disputed
the suicide finding.
In
1985, a 20/20 episode was to air where Robert Slatzer postulates that Monroe
was killed by Bobby Kennedy, or was in his presence when she died. The show is
cancelled.
Marilyn is buried at Westwood Memorial Cemetery.
by
Norma Jean Baker
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That is what Marilyn Monroe lacked. She was a public woman --
successful, yet completely a failure. While she was at the top of her
success and
fame, she committed suicide. Why she committed suicide has remained an
enigma. She had everything to live for; you cannot conceive of more fame, more
success, more charisma, more beauty, more health. Everything was there, nothing
could be improved upon, and still something was lacking. The inside, the
within, was empty. Then, suicide is the only way. You may not be daring enough
to commit suicide like Marilyn Monroe. You may be very cowardly and you may
commit suicide very slowly -- you may take seventy years to commit it. But
still it will be a suicide. Unless you have something inside you which is not
dependent on anything outside, which is just your own -- a world, a space of
your own where you can close your eyes and move, and you can forget that
anything else exists -- you will be committing suicide.
OshO
One of the most famous actresses, Marilyn Monroe, committed suicide, and psychoanalysts have been brooding on the reason why. She was one of the beautiful women ever, one of the most successful. Even the President of America Kennedy, was in love with here, and she had thousands of lovers. One cannot think of what more you can have. She had everything.
But she was public and she knew it. Even in her love chamber when President Kennedy was there, she addressed him as Mr. President - as if she was making love not to a man, but to an institution.
She was an institution. By and by she came aware that she had nothing private. Once somebody asked here - she had just posed for a nude calendar and somebody asked, "Did you have anything on while you posed for the nude calendar?" She said, "Yes, I had something on. The radio."
Exposed, nude, no private self. My feeling is that she committed suicide because that was the only thing left she could have done privately. Everything was public, that was the only thing left she could do on her own, alone, something absolutely intimate and secret. Public figures are always tempted towards suicide because only through suicide can they have a glimpse of who they are.
All that is beautiful is inner, and the inner means privacy. Have you watched women making love? They always close their eyes. They know something. In darkness, everything else disappears because you cannot see. Only you and the senses are there. That´s why, in all good restaurants, light is avoided; sharp light is avoided. They are candle-lit. Whenever a restaurant is candle-lit, taste is deeper: you eat well and you taste more. The fragrance surrounds you. If there is very bright light the taste is no longer there. The eyes make everything public.
Go in so that your coming out becomes richer and is not impoverished. And always remember that whenever you feel exhausted, the source of energy is within. Close your eyes and go in. Make outer relationships; of course there are bound to be outer relationships -- you move in the world, business relationships will be there - but they should not be all. They have their part to play, but there must be something absolutely secret and private, something that you can call your own. Make inner relationships also.
That is what Marilyn Monroe lacked. She was a public woman - successful, yet completely a failure. She was at the top of her success and fame when she committed suicide. She had everything to live for; you cannot conceive of more fame, more success, more charisma, more beauty, more health. Everything was there, nothing could be improved upon, and still something was lacking. The inside, the within, was empty
OshO
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Have you observed the fact that movie actors who are in the business
of love are almost always failures in their own love lives? They never succeed.
Even a Marilyn Monroe commits suicide. She was at the top; even President
Kennedy was in love with her. The whole world was in love with her. But
somehow, her whole life was empty. She committed suicide at the very peak of
her career, of her fame; such a beautiful woman. What happened? Why are actors
and actresses always failures in their real love lives? They have learned so
much about love that they cannot be real about love. They go on acting the same
roles, they go on playing the same games. As they are playing on the stage,
they go on playing in life. On the stage it is okay because nothing is
involved. But in real life, it is empty. So they go on making empty
gestures.
OshO
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Marilyn Monroe committed suicide -- a beautiful woman, but not
satisfied, not contented. There is something in it. All faces are funny because
all faces are false. Deep down, your being is faceless. That's what Zen people
call the original face. When a disciple comes to a Zen master, the master says,
"Go and meditate upon your original face."
And what is the original face? The face that you had before you were born and
the face that you will have again when you are dead: find out that original
face. It is not a face at all.
OshO
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A
man who is successful in the world feels the pain of being a failure as nobody
else can feel it. There is a proverb that says that nothing succeeds like
success. I would like to tell you: nothing
fails like success. But you cannot know it unless you have succeeded.
When all the riches are there that you have dreamt about, planned about, worked
hard for, then sitting just amidst those riches is the beggar -- deep inside
empty, hollow; nothing inside, everything outside. In fact, when everything is
there outside, it becomes a contrast. It simply emphasizes your inner emptiness
and nothingness. It simply emphasizes your inner beggarliness, poverty. A rich
man knows poverty as no poor man can ever know. A successful man knows what
failure is. At the top of the world, suddenly you realize that you have been
behaving foolishly. You may not say so, because what is the point of saying it?
You may go on pretending that you are very happy -- presidents and prime
ministers go on pretending they are very happy; they are not. They are just
saving their faces. Now, what to say? There is no point even in saying anything
-- they are not true.
OshO
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REMEMBER remain alert that you don t get too much attached to the
accidental -- and all is accidental except your consciousness. Except your
awareness, all is accidental. Pain and pleasure, success and failure, fame and
defamation -- all is accidental. Only your witnessing consciousness is
essential. Stick to it! Get more and more rooted in it. And don't spread your
attachment to worldly things. I don't mean leave them. I don't mean leave your
house, leave your wife, leave your children -- but remember that it is just an
accident that you are together. It is not going to be an eternal state. It has
a beginning; it will have an end. Remember that you were happy even before it
began; and you will be happy when it has ended. If you can carry this
touchstone, you can always judge what is accidental and what is
essential.
OshO
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If after forty you have not
started suffering from insomnia, that simply means that you are a failure, that
you could not succeed -- in business, in politics. In power you couldn't
succeed; you are a failure. All successful people suffer from insomnia, have to
suffer. They suffer from ulcers, have to suffer. So remember: insomnia, ulcers
and things like that are nothing but
certificates
of success -- that you have succeeded.
OshO
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