This art of participating in happiness is one of the foundations if you want to be happy.
Only man has become an outsider – and because of his own efforts. On his own, he has separated himself from existence.
Being is primary and doing is secondary for them. Celebration comes first and work takes a back seat in their lives. Work is preparatory to celebration.
If you go and watch the way the primitive tribes live, you will know what work is in relation to celebration. They work the whole day so they can sing and dance with abandon at night.
To transform breakdowns into breakthroughs is the whole function of a master.
Don’t call it uncertainty-call it wonder.
Try to force celibacy upon yourself and your dreams will become sexual, they will have a quality of sexuality.
Creativity is a quality that we give to every activity that we do.
What you eat is not the goal. What you are is the goal.
It is your attachment that creates hell.
A witnessing consciousness lives in life but with tremendous non-attachment, with great non-possessiveness; it possesses nothing. It lives totally, it lives passionately, but still knowing that I don’t possess anything.
Attachment is not love. Where there is attachment there is exploitation.
You can change your attachment from this to that, but you will be in misery. Attachment creates misery.
Become alert about desire and non-attachment begins to appear. This is not to be made to happen, it follows naturally from awareness of attachment. Each one of us has to become aware of his attachments, and keep being so! Nothing should be done unconsciously.
Attachment is the root cause of all misery – and our mind is such that it starts clinging to each and everything. It starts becoming identified, attached, it does not know how to keep a distance; hence the misery.
Become detached from your ego, become detached from your possessions. Become simply detached from every possible source of attachment.
Attachment is misery, but from the very beginning the child is taught for attachment. The mother will say to the child, “Love me; I am your mother.” The father will say, “Love me; I am your father” – as if someone is a father or a mother so he becomes automatically lovable.
Seeing means that you don’t condemn fear as bad from the very beginnings.
Be a loving person rather than in a love relationship.
Virtue is virtue only when it is spontaneous; virtue is virtue only when it is natural, unpractised – when it comes out of your vision, out of your awareness, out of your understanding.