Every answer will make more questions.
Remain a witness to your emotions as if from a great distance an eagles eye view.
Create the way by your walking; you will not find a ready-made path.
Illusions are bound to be shattered.
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!
I say unto you that suffering is not holding you, you are holding suffering.
This is the way the mind functions: its whole interest is in that which you have not got.
Even great travelers of the inner world have got stuck in beautiful experiences, and have become identified with those experiences, thinking, “I have found myself.” They have stopped before reaching the final stage where all experiences disappear. Enlightenment is not an experience.
From birth to death man is a long sleep, sometimes dreaming with eyes closed, sometimes dreaming with eyes open, but dreaming all the same, all the time.
Change only one thing, change from misery to bliss. from sadness to celebration. And it can be done very easily because misery is an unnatural thing.
The mind is constantly involved in thinking, in judging, in evaluating. Its whole function seems to be to keep you involved in thoughts, which are nothing but soap bubbles – or perhaps soap bubbles have more substance to them than your thoughts.
As you are now you are just a liquid phenomenon, changing every moment, nothing stable. Really you cannot claim any “I” – you don’t have one. You are many “I”s just in a flow, a riverlike flow. You are a crowd, not an individual yet. But meditation can make you an individual.
This word ‘individual’ is beautiful; it means indivisible. Right now as you are, you are divided. You are only many fragments clinging together anyhow without any center being there, without any master in the house, with only servants. And for a moment any servant can become the master.
Every moment you are different because you are not – and unless you are, the divine cannot happen to you. To whom can it happen? You are not there.
Be open, and God starts pouring into you like wine from every nook and corner of existence. Then wherever you look, you find God. Then whatsoever you touch, you find God. Then whatsoever you drink and eat, you find God. And when God pours from everywhere, then life is a celebration.
You will not become dependent on the people you love. You will share – and sharing is beautiful.
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.
Enlightenment is nothing but your consciousness being concentrated on a single point – now and here.
Love knows how to forgive. Love cannot hurt and cannot be violent.
God happens only when you have moved out of the way and left yourself totally empty, spacious. It is a very strange phenomenon: The guest only comes inside the house when the host disappears.