Joy is not dependent on circumstances; it is your own. It is not a titillation produced by things; it is a state of peace, of silence-a meditative state. It is spiritual.
I am not interested in communicating something to you, I am interested in communion. Communication means my mind talking to your mind. Communion means I am not a mind, you are not a mind – just your heart melting into my heart, no words.
Never belong to a crowd; Never belong to a nation; Never belong to a religion; Never belong to a race. Belong to the whole existence. Why limit yourself to small things? When the whole is available.
Fighting with anybody is very dangerous because you become like your enemy.
There is no greater magic than meditation. To transform the negative into the positive. To transform darkness into light-that is the miracle of meditation.
The inner emptiness is the door to God.
Life reflects, life resounds, life echoes whatsoever you throw at life.
Fools laugh at others. Wisdom laughs at itself.
Only the inner silence is yours. No-one gave it to you. You were born with it and you will die with it. Thoughts have been given to you. You have been conditioned to them.
Everybody is trying to be perfect. And the moment somebody starts trying to be perfect, he starts expecting everybody else to be perfect. He starts condemning people, he starts humiliating people.
Don’t swim against the current. Stay in the river, become the river; and the river is already going to the sea. This is the great teaching.
A mature mind is one who understands the impossibility of knowing the ultimate, and with this understanding there is a new dimension: the dimension of being.
Do not cling to anything, to any idea; because clinging is the bondage, even to the idea of enlightenment.
Nobody can teach you love. Love you have to find yourself, within your being, by raising your consciousness to higher levels.
A man who is afraid of death will be afraid of life also, because life brings death. If you are afraid of the enemy and you close your door, the friend will also be prohibited.
If people become ecstatic the whole society will have to change, because this society is based on misery. If people are blissful you cannot lead them to war – to Vietnam, or to Egypt, or to Israel. No. Someone who is blissful will just laugh and say: This is nonsense!
Nature has come to a point where now, unless you take individual responsibility, you cannot grow.
Whatever happened yesterday was the past.
Don’t say this is good and that is bad. Drop all discrimination. Accept everything as it is.
Jesus was a crackpot.