Your seed has been covered with so many layers of culture, etiquitte, education, religion, country, that you have completely forgotten that you are here to grow, that you have become a lush green bush full of flowers, fragrance, dancing in the wind and in the rain and in the sun.
How can one become enlightened in one single moment? One can, because one is enlightened – one just has to recognize the fact. It is not something that happens from the outside, it is something that arises from the inside. It has always been there but you were clouded, you were full of thoughts.
Drop the idea of being Extraordinary! It’s keeping you mediocre. To be Ordinary is the most extraordinary thing in the world. The Ordinary person has light in his eyes; he has become extraordinary but he has no idea of it.
If you move in the present moment, the whole eternity is in your hands.
In rain during a dark night, enter that darkness.
So awareness and enjoying this life can grow together simultaneously. And this is my vision of the whole man.
At its highest, love is a religious state of consciousness. I love you too, Buddha loves, Jesus loves, but their love demands nothing in return.
The intelligent person depends on his own insight; he trusts his own being. He loves and respects himself.
Trust life. If you trust, only then can you drop your knowledge, only then can you put your mind aside.
Enlightenment is finding that there is nothing to find. Enlightenment is to come to know that there is nowhere to go.
Beware: don’t choose the convenient, the comfortable, the respectable, the socially acceptable. Choose something that rings a bell in your heart.
It is not that I love contradictions: life is contradictory. Existence itself is possible only through contradictions.
Moving from love, not fear – a beautiful idea, especially when applied literally to the body.
People can be happy in only one way, and that is if they are authentically themselves. Then the springs of happiness start flowing, they become more alive, they become a joy to see, a joy to be with; they are a song, they are a dance.
If you become a little alert you will find love, light, laughter, everywhere.
Remember, meditation cannot be result-oriented; you simply meditate, that’s all.
Watch, witness. Your body is not you; your mind is not you. You are just a pure witness.
Every action is self-perpetuating, every thought is self-perpetuating. Once you cooperate with it, you are giving energy to it. Sooner or later it will become habitual. You will do it and you will not be the doer; you will do it just because of the force of habit.
Let this truth go as deep in you as possible: that life is already here, arrived. You are standing on the goal. Don’t ask about the path.
No meditation, no life. Know meditation, know life.