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.
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.
The real honesty is a responsibility to the present moment. It needs tremendous awareness. You have to be honest to the present moment, not to the past, not to the future.
The sannyasin knows what it means to be an emperor, because he simply gives; he enjoys giving, he loves sharing. And the miracle of life is: the more you give the more you have.
The fundamental thing is to drop the split, to become one. Be one, and then all else is possible; even the impossible is possible.
If you want to become an infinite source of love, then go on sharing love as much as you can. Don’t be a miser; only misers lose energy.
In my vision, the thing that man needs first and foremost is a meditative consciousness.
When I say that you are gods and goddesses I mean that your possibility is infinite, your potentiality is infinite.
Learn to become more of a witness, create more watchfulness. Let each act, each thought, be seen.
To remain absolutely free is what a true and authentic life is. So never gather any character – remain characterless.
Bliss needs to be shared; it exists only in sharing.