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In the spiritual life one becomes just like a little child, without resentment, without attachment, full of life and joy.
Success should be measured by the yardstick of happiness; by your ability to remain in peaceful harmony with cosmic laws.
Cosmic energy enters the body through the medulla and then passes to the cerebrum, in which it is stored or concentrated.
Don't try to force anything. Let life be a deep let-go. God opens millions of flowers everyday without forcing their buds
When you become centered, suddenly there is great freedom because you know you are not the mind and you are not the body.
When one is in love with existence one feels such blessing, such bliss, that it is natural to bow down in deep gratitude.
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.
Mind is something unnatural; it never becomes your natural state. But meditation is a natural state - which we have lost.
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.
Self-realization is the knowing in all parts of body, mind, and soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of God.
We do not always see the things that are nearest to us. We pass by riches that lie close at hand and chase after rainbows.
Don't be bothered by perfection. Replace the word 'Perfection' by 'Totality. Totality will give you a different dimension.
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.
When you understand yourself, that very day you have understood the whole of humanity. Then nobody can make you miserable.
The ego is exploitation; love is service. And the service that flows from love, freely and spontaneously, is non-violence.
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.
"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.
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.
When the mind is attuned to the cosmic law, all the laws of nature are in perfect harmony with the aspirations of the mind.
And meditation is nothing but enjoying your beautiful aloneness. Celebrating yourself; that's what meditation is all about.
You are not accidental. The world needs you. Without you, something will be missing in existence and nobody can replace it.
Your love will deepen as your meditation deepens, and vice-versa: as your meditation blossoms, your love will also blossom.
Sannyas is only a declaration. The work is meditation. In one single word, my religion is complete, and that is meditation.
It doesn't matter if a cave has been in darkness for 10,000 years or half an hour, once you light a match it is illuminated.
Analyze yourself. All emotions are reflected in the body and mind. Envy and fear cause the face to pale, love makes it glow.
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.
As your silence grows; your friendliness, your love grows; your life becomes a moment-to-moment dance, a joy, a celebration.
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.
Zen people love Buddha so tremendously that they can even play jokes upon him. It is out of great love; they are not afraid.
The philosophy of life is this: Life is not a struggle, not a tension Life is bliss. It is eternal wisdom, eternal existence.
Become more and more innocent, less knowledgeable and more childlike. Take life as fun - because that's precisely what it is!
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.
Sadness comes, joy comes, and everything passes by. What remains always is the witness. The witness is beyond all polarities.
Hence my insistence that music and meditation should go together. That adds a new dimension to both. Both are enriched by it.
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.
Religion is nothing but a science to attain wisdom, understanding, to know what life is, and to live it in utter celebration.
Everything is Spirit - in essence, though hidden in manifestation. If you had the perception, you would see God in everything.
When you know God as peace within, then you will realize Him as peace existing in the universal harmony of all things without.
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.
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.
The West has made people too time-conscious, not knowing where they are going but speeding to get there because time is short.
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.
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.