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Desire means the way to go out; desire is the path that leads you out. If your mind is still desiring, you cannot move within.
Meditation means to be in non-doing. Meditation is not a doing but a state of being. It is a state of being in one's own self.
Only an acceptance of both the flowers and the thorns can bring you peace. Peace, after all, is the fruit of total acceptance.
Life should be a continual celebration, a festival of lights the whole year round. Only then can you grow up, can you blossom.
Out of that aloneness - the experience of God. There is no other way; there has never been any and there is never going to be.
Love is authentic only when it gives freedom. Love is true only when it respects the other person's individuality, his privacy.
The only way to know something absolutely is to experience it for yourself; anything less is theory, speculation, and belief. .
Knowledge is also borrowed. It is not a flower that grows in your soul, it is something plastic that has been imposed upon you.
Love is a wine; you have to taste it, you have to drink it, you have to become drunk with it, only then do you know what it is.
Zen says everything is divine so how can anything be special? All is special. Nothing is non-special so nothing can be special.
When you love, love as if the person is a god, not less than that. Never love a woman as a woman and never love a man as a man.
The dance of the flower in the wind, in the sun, in the rain, cannot be understood by the head; the heart has to be open for it.
Nobody is superior, nobody is inferior, but nobody is equal either. People are simply unique, incomparable. You are you, I am I.
Love means the art of being with others. Meditation means the art of being with yourself. Both are two aspects of the same coin.
When becoming disappears, all the smoke of becoming disappears, there is the flame of being, and that very flame is celebration.
Only one thing is going to remain with you: that is your witnessing, that is your watchfulness. This watchfulness is meditation.
Zen is not a philosophy, it is poetry. It does not propose, it simply persuades. It does not argue, it simply sings its own song.
Relationship is the need of those who cannot be alone. Two alone persons relate, communicate, commune, and yet they remain alone.
That's why children look so beautiful because they are yet full of hope, full of dreams, and they have not yet known frustration.
Frustration is out of expectation; expectation is our projection. All kinds of love frustrate unless love is based in meditation.
Friendship is a relationship, friendliness is a state of your being. You are simply friendly; to whom, that is not the point. . .
Philosophers are never happy here. Now is not their time, and here is not their space. They live there, they live somewhere else.
Next time when anger comes just watch it. Don't say, I am angry. Say, Anger is there and I am watching it. And see the difference!
The fundamental thing is to drop the split, to become one. Be one, and then all else is possible; even the impossible is possible.
That is the ultimate synthesis - when Zorba becomes a Buddha. I am trying to create here not Zorba the Greek but Zorba the Buddha.
Without zest, what is life? Just waiting for death? It can't be anything else. Only with zest do you live; otherwise you vegetate.
A creativity that comes out of meditative innocence, of meditative purity. And a real creator is possible only through meditation.
Love is overflowing joy. Love is when you have seen who you are. Then there is nothing left except to share your being with others.
I resolve never to make any resolutions because all resolutions are restrictions for the future. All resolutions are imprisonments.
Zen is all-inclusive. It never denies, it never says no to anything; it accepts everything and transforms it into a higher reality.
Relationship is a mirror.. Every moment the other reveals you, exposes you. The closer the relationship, the clearer is the mirror.
Just remember one criterion: whatever you do should not be in the service of destruction, it should be in the service of creativity.
I love this world because it is imperfect. It is imperfect, and that's why it is growing; if it was perfect it would have been dead.
Freedom is a ladder: one side of the ladder reaches hell, the other side touches heaven. It is the same ladder; the choice is yours.
Marriage is a formality, a legal bondage. Love is of the heart; marriage is of the mind. That's why I am never in favor of marriage.
People are afraid, very much afraid of those who know themselves. They have a certain power, a certain aura and a certain magnetism.
A comfortable, convenient life is not a real life - the more comfortable, the less alive. The most comfortable life is in the grave.
Zen is non-serious. Zen has a tremendous sense of humor. No other religion has evolved so much that it can have that sense of humor.
To be spontaneous means not to act out of the past, because out of the past is all cunningness, cleverness, calculation, arithmetic.
As you walk, you simply walk. Don't go ahead, don't jump here and there. Mind always go ahead or lag behind. Remain with the moment.
The feminine is more powerful than the masculine, the soft is more powerful than the hard, the water is more powerful than the rock.
And then comes unhappiness, and one does not become unhappy either. One says, 'A black cloud passing. I am the witness, the watcher.'
The moment you go in, all connections with the outside world are broken; all bridges are broken. In fact, the whole world disappears.
It is beautiful to be alone, it is also beautiful to to be in love, to be with people. And they are complementary, not contradictory.
The Truth Is That Existence Wants Your Life To Become A Festival Because When You Are Unhappy, You Also Throw Unhappiness All Around.
Happy people continuously change; and because they change they become more and more happy; and then more and more change is possible.
The whole existence is a temple...the trees are continously in worship, the clouds are in prayer and the mountains are in meditation.
You will find meaning in life only if you create it.It is a poetry to be composed. It is a song to be sung.It is a dance to be danced.
Love is ultimate, the highest health, because love makes one whole. When you love a master by and by you completely forgot about love.
If you want to possess things—money; if you want to possess yourself—meditation. And if you possess yourself, money loses all meaning.