You can enter yoga, or the path of yoga, only when you are totally frustrated with your own mind as it is. If you are still hoping that you can gain something through your mind, yoga is not for you.
In the moment of deep creativity you disappear, God again starts functioning.
You exist in time, but you belong to eternity.
As I see it, out of a hundred marriages ninety-nine marriages are just licensed prostitution. They are not marriages. A marriage is only a real marriage when it grows out of love. Legal, illegal, does not matter. The real thing that matters is love.
It is my observation that all human hearts are the same and that their ultimate desire is also the same. This soul wants happiness, perfect and pure happiness, because only then will all desires end. As long as desire exists misery exists, because with desire there can be no peace.
Move inwards! Contentment is a quality of your center; it is not found on the circumference. Fulfillment is when you have arrived at your real, authentic being; it is not found in the ego.
They say: Think twice before you jump. I say: Jump first and then think as much as you want!
The world is not a problem; the problem is your unawareness.
You can succeed only with God, never against him. You can succeed only with the whole, never against it.
Responsibility is awareness, alertness, consciousness. Ego is just unconsciousness. They cannot coexist. As you grow more conscious you grow more towards light, and anything belonging to the world of darkness starts disappearing. Ego is nothing but darkness.
Seriousness is a sickness; your sense of humor makes you more human, more humble. The sense of humor – according to me – is one of the most essential parts of religiousness.
To be in time is to be asleep: to be awake is to be in eternity.
You just listen to your own heart. That is your only teacher.
Existence is a mystery, and one should accept it as a mystery and not pretend to have any explanation .
Always go with the river of life. Never try to go against the current, and never try to go faster than the river. Just move in absolute relaxation, so that each moment you are at home, at ease, at peace with existence.
God is not in heaven – God is in the present moment. If you are also in the present moment you enter the temple.
The ego is your enemy, not your friend. It is the ego that gives you wounds and hurts you. It is the ego that makes you violent, angry, jealous, competitive. It is the ego that is continuously comparing and feeling miserable.
We are identified with the ego, and with the ego there are many things: anger and hatred and jealousy and possessiveness and greed – the whole train. The ego functions like an engine and there are many many compartments following it. Once the ego dies the whole train stops.
The fragrance of the heart is made up of the qualities and virtues of our spirit. Most of us have learned how to keep our heart closed in a world that would trample all over us if we let it. Being open hearted today seems to require tremendous courage.
The moment love becomes a relationship, it becomes a bondage, because there are expectations and there are demands and there are frustrations, and an effort from both sides to dominate. It becomes a struggle for power...