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In the United States we have the great Harvard Business School, but America is the country with the greatest debt in the world.
I am calmly active, actively calm. I am the prince of peace sitting on a throne of poise, directing the kingdom of my activity.
Love is authentic only when it gives freedom. Love is true only when it respects the other person's individuality, his privacy.
Knowledge is also borrowed. It is not a flower that grows in your soul, it is something plastic that has been imposed upon you.
The only way to know something absolutely is to experience it for yourself; anything less is theory, speculation, and belief. .
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.
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.
The philosophy of life is this: Life is not a struggle, not a tension... Life is bliss. It is eternal wisdom, eternal existence.
You do not have to struggle to reach God, but you do have to struggle to tear away the self-created veil that hides him from you
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.
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.
Only one thing is going to remain with you: that is your witnessing, that is your watchfulness. This watchfulness is meditation.
When, by meditation, we withdraw restless thoughts from the lake of the mind, we behold our soul, a perfect reflection of Spirit.
All Nature will commune with you when you are in tune with God. Realization of this truth will make you a master of your destiny.
Through love and sincerity continuously beautify your inner life in every way, by daily looking into the mirror of introspection.
Behold thine immortal Self resurrected with Christ in the light of illumination, present in every soul, every flower, every atom!
The sense of being a separate, egoic self begins with the astral, not with the physical, body. The soul is individualized spirit.
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. . .
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.
Philosophers are never happy here. Now is not their time, and here is not their space. They live there, they live somewhere else.
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.
He who finds joy within himself discovers that his body is charged with electric current, life energy, not from food but from God.
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.
A creativity that comes out of meditative innocence, of meditative purity. And a real creator is possible only through meditation.
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.
Whatever the mind does, the soul has perforce to suffer the consequences of it, because the soul and the mind are knotted together.
The spine is the highway to the Infinite. Your own body is the temple of God. It is within your own self that God must be realized.
Self-realization is, in fact, the only religion. For it is the true purpose of religion, no matter how people define their beliefs.
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.
Relationship is a mirror.. Every moment the other reveals you, exposes you. The closer the relationship, the clearer is the mirror.
Zen is all-inclusive. It never denies, it never says no to anything; it accepts everything and transforms it into a higher reality.
I resolve never to make any resolutions because all resolutions are restrictions for the future. All resolutions are imprisonments.
Meditation is the direct means of enjoying the greatest happiness and is the only means to quench the thirst for happiness on earth.
Remember this: When I am gone, only love can take my place. Be absorbed night and day in the love of God, and give that love to all.
The feminine is more powerful than the masculine, the soft is more powerful than the hard, the water is more powerful than the rock.
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.
A comfortable, convenient life is not a real life - the more comfortable, the less alive. The most comfortable life is in the grave.
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.
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.
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.
Just remember one criterion: whatever you do should not be in the service of destruction, it should be in the service of creativity.