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It is not that I love contradictions: life is contradictory. Existence itself is possible only through contradictions.
Find the light and it will show you the path. The path that is shown by your own light is the only path that is right.
Enlightenment will be now the beginning, not the end. Beginning of a non-ending process in all dimensions of richness.
The whole effort of a Jesus or a Buddha or a Bodhidharma is nothing but how to undo that which society has done to you.
Being aware of awareness itself only consciousness can get you there to the truth of yourself the immortal inner being.
A very sensitive person in this stupid world is bound to become mad.... Only meditation can save him from becoming mad.
Love has these three stages, and compassion accordingly has three stages, and both can exist in different combinations.
Love happens when you are ready to share with another human being. Prayer happens when you are ready to share with God.
Every child is so helpless - just to survive he has to be political, he has to accept whatsoever the parents are saying.
Wisdom happens through meditation, and bliss also happens through meditation. Both the flowers bloom on the same branch.
There is no other revolution except consciousness. It cuts the desires from the very roots and it brings freedom to you.
"Who am I?" is not really a question because it has no answer to it; it is unanswerable. It is a device, not a question.
If you are absolutely without mind, just pure consciousness, time stops completely, disappears, leaving no trace behind.
Time is a need of the miserable mind. Time is a creation of misery. If you are happy there is no time - time disappears.
That which makes you miserable is the only sin. That which takes you away from yourself is the only thing to be avoided.
In the East, all the religions preach egolessness. So in the East, everybody is against the ego from the very beginning.
Mind is something unnatural; it never becomes your natural state. But meditation is a natural state - which we have lost.
When one is in love with existence one feels such blessing, such bliss, that it is natural to bow down in deep gratitude.
When you become centered, suddenly there is great freedom because you know you are not the mind and you are not the body.
Don't try to force anything. Let life be a deep let-go. God opens millions of flowers everyday without forcing their buds
To be alone and to be drunk with your own aloneness is what meditation is all about. Be in the world, but don't be of it.
All that is great cannot be possessed - and that is one of the most foolish things man goes on doing. We want to possess.
Find ecstasy within yourself. It is not out there. It is in your innermost flowering. The one you are looking for is you.
The ego is exploitation; love is service. And the service that flows from love, freely and spontaneously, is non-violence.
"Never speak of me in the past tense". My presence here will be many times greater without the burden of my tortured body.
When sex becomes conscious it is love, it is no longer lust. Love brings freedom, and lust simply creates prisons for you.
Misery nourishes your ego - that's why you see so many miserable people in the world. The basic, central point is the ego.
People can live tremendously rich, blissful, ecstatic lives. But the first thing is, we have to accept our responsibility.
The mind is continuously running around. It never sits, it can't sit. Sitting seems to be death to it, and in a way it is.
All of the religions are looking after the poor. At least leave me alone to look after the rich. I am the rich man's guru.
Don't be bothered by perfection. Replace the word 'Perfection' by 'Totality. Totality will give you a different dimension.
When you understand yourself, that very day you have understood the whole of humanity. Then nobody can make you miserable.
And meditation is nothing but enjoying your beautiful aloneness. Celebrating yourself; that's what meditation is all about.
Your love will deepen as your meditation deepens, and vice-versa: as your meditation blossoms, your love will also blossom.
You are not accidental. The world needs you. Without you, something will be missing in existence and nobody can replace it.
Sannyas is only a declaration. The work is meditation. In one single word, my religion is complete, and that is meditation.
Paradise is not somewhere else... it is within you. And it is not in some other time, after death... It is in you right now.
Life is not logic, life is not philosophy. Life is a dance, a song, a celebration! It is more like love and less like logic.
Don't be serious about seriousness. Laugh about it, be a little foolish. Don't condemn foolishness; it has its own beauties.
When you are here and now, sitting totally, not jumping ahead, the miracle has happened. To be in the moment is the miracle.
As your silence grows; your friendliness, your love grows; your life becomes a moment-to-moment dance, a joy, a celebration.
Zen people love Buddha so tremendously that they can even play jokes upon him. It is out of great love; they are not afraid.
If you are not capable of being alone, your relationship is false. It is just a trick to avoid your loneliness, nothing else.
Nobody can teach you love. Love you have to find yourself, within your being, by raising your consciousness to higher levels.
That is one of the great secrets of life, that life is a movement. And if you are stuck somewhere you lose contact with life.
Sadness comes, joy comes, and everything passes by. What remains always is the witness. The witness is beyond all polarities.
Religion is nothing but a science to attain wisdom, understanding, to know what life is, and to live it in utter celebration.
Hence my insistence that music and meditation should go together. That adds a new dimension to both. Both are enriched by it.
Become more and more innocent, less knowledgeable and more childlike. Take life as fun - because that's precisely what it is!
The West has made people too time-conscious, not knowing where they are going but speeding to get there because time is short.