Spirituality is your original face; it is the discovery of your intrinsic nature.
Living in memories is an empty gesture.
That which makes you miserable is the only sin. That which takes you away from yourself is the only thing to be avoided.
Love is authentic only when it gives freedom. Love is true only when it respects the other person’s individuality, his privacy.
Law is for the society; love is for the individual. Law is how you behave with others; love is how you behave with yourself. Love is an inner flowering; law is an outward performance. Because you live with people you have to be lawful, but that is not enough – good, but not enough.
If you are a man of prayer, existence appears as God, as personal. If you are a man of meditation, existence is impersonal, just a wholeness, a divineness. For the man of prayer there is God; for the man of awareness there is godliness but no God.
Religion is not knowledge. Religion is love. The word ‘religion’ comes from a root which means binding together – falling into love, becoming one.
Heaven and hell are not geographical, they are psychological, they are your psychology.
You say that in heaven there is eternal beauty. The eternal beauty is here and now, not in heaven.
Once two persons are tied together freedom is lost and anger arises. When freedom is lost everything becomes ugly. Love means that freedom remains intact: marriage means that freedom has been dropped. You have bargained for permanence, for security, and you have paid for it with freedom.
All methods of meditation are nothing but methods to help you to remember the art of let-go.
Silence is the space where man wakes up.
Become more and more innocent, less knowledgeable and more childlike. Take life as fun – because that’s precisely what it is!
And this sensitivity will create new friendships for you – friendships with trees, with birds, with animals, with mountains, with rivers, with oceans, with stars. Life becomes richer as love grows.
Don’t analyze, celebrate it.
Meditation is not growth of the ego, it is death of the ego.
If there is pain, use it as an awareness, as meditation, as a sharpening of the soul. And when pleasure is there, use it as a droning, as a forgetfulness. Both are ways to reach God. One is to remember yourself totally, and one is to forget yourself totally.
Enjoyment is just the sound of being centered.
Laughter relaxes. And relaxation is spiritual.
Don’t look for God in the sky; look within your own body.