Live in this world, because this world gives a ripening, maturity, integrity. The challenges of this world give you a centering, an awareness. And that awareness becomes the ladder. Then you can move from Zorba to Buddha.
The other world is hidden in this world. The Buddha is asleep in the Zorba. It has to be awakened. And nobody can awaken you except life itself.
I am here to help you to be total wherever you are; in whatsoever state you are – live that state totally. It is only in living a thing totally that one transcends it.
Except for our bodies there are no other temples in the world.
Meditation is the only magic that can help you to be free from the mind, can help you to be free from yourself, your past and all the burden of the past.
If you want to possess things – money; if you want to possess yourself – meditation. And if you possess yourself, money loses all meaning.
Your mind is a constant traffic of thoughts, and it is always rush hour, day in, day out. Meditation means to watch the movement of thoughts in the mind.
Meditation is nothing but coming to terms with your inner emptiness: recognizing it, not escaping; living through it, not escaping; being through it, not escaping. Then suddenly the emptiness becomes the fullness of life.
Your love will deepen as your meditation deepens, and vice-versa: as your meditation blossoms, your love will also blossom.
Meditation is just a courage to be silent and alone. Slowly slowly, you start feeling a new quality to yourself, a new aliveness, a new beauty, a new intelligence – which is not borrowed from anybody, which is growing within you. It has roots in your existence.
Meditation is the breath of your soul. Just as breathing is the life of the body, meditation is the life of the soul.
The mind is constantly talking. If the inner talk can drop even for a single moment you will be able to have a glimpse of no-mind. That’s what meditation is all about. The state of no-mind is the right state. It is your state.
Meditation requires courage. It requires the basic integrity, sincerity, respect towards your own being. At least don’t deceive yourself.
When meditation releases energy in you, it will find all sorts of ways to be expressed.
The world can come to a harmony if meditation is spread far and wide.
The western mind is linear, the eastern mind is circular.
Mind is a broken mirror.
Mind is blocking the fountain of intelligence like a rock.
To be present is to be prayerful.
The body has to be looked after: one has to be very caring about the body and very loving to the body. And then, its very spontaneity purifies it, makes it holy.