Existence is only in the present. Mind is never in the present. In fact, the moment you are in the present, there is no mind in you, there is great silence. The whole sky of your inner being is without thoughts, without clouds. I call this the state of no-mind. Only in this state of no-mind do you meet existence. And that meeting is the ultimate ecstasy. Once you have tasted it, you will never bother about the future.
Love is authentic only when it gives freedom. Love is true only when it respects the other person's individuality, his privacy.
Just think: you cannot find a single misery for which you are not responsible. It may be jealousy, it may be anger, it may be greed - but something in you must be the reason that is creating the misery.
When a man thinks about a woman he thinks about love, he never thinks about marriage. When a woman thinks about a man, she thinks about marriage. Love is secondary, security is first. She lives in a different kind of world - maybe in the future she may not, but in the past the only problem for the woman was how to be secure.
Prem Bubula, I have told you that a woman is to be loved, not understood.
My love is unconditional. Your action is irrelevant.
Be less of a judge and you will be surprised that when you become a witness and you don't judge yourself, you stop judging others too. And that makes you more human, more compassionate, more understanding.
A small room is enough; a small quantity of food is enough; a few clothes are enough; one lover, a very ordinary man
And meditation is nothing but enjoying your beautiful aloneness. Celebrating yourself; that's what meditation is all about.
People are not things, you cannot have ownership.
Life is a constant challenge to know oneself.
Nobody else can destroy you except you; nobody else can save you except you. You are the Judas and you are the Jesus.
Learn to laugh. Seriousness is a sin, and it is a disease. Laughter has tremendous beauty, a lightness. It will bring lightness to you, and it will give you wings to fly.
You cannot live with expectations because life has no obligation to fulfill your desires. You can live with an open heart, but you cannot live with expectations. The more expectations you have, the more frustrated you will be.
Withdraw your awareness from everywhere and just let it rest within yourself, and you have arrived home.
I can understand; you are really in a mess and there is no way out. I have heard that there are three rings of love: the engagement ring, the wedding ring and the suffer-ring.
God happens only when you have moved out of the way and left yourself totally empty, spacious. It is a very strange phenomenon: The guest only comes inside the house when the host disappears.
Love is overflowing joy. Love is when you have seen who you are. Then there is nothing left except to share your being with others.
Only disciplined people become free, but their discipline is not obedience to others: their discipline is obedience to their own inner voice. And they are ready to risk anything for it.
The idea of vegetarianism is of immense value; it is based on great reverence for life.
Except for our bodies there are no other temples in the world
Forget about getting, simply give; and I guarantee you, you will get much.
There is no failure in life. It all depends how you take things. If you are desiring too much - you want to reach too high, and you cannot - then there is frustration and failure. But if you are not desiring anything and you are perfectly happy wherever you are, life is moment-to-moment victory.
Surrender is the quantum leap from mind to no-mind, from ego to egolessness. And in a single step the whole journey is contained. It is not a long journey from you to God, it is a single-step journey. It is not a gradual phenomenon; it is not that slowly slowly, gradually you come to the divine. It is a quantum leap! One moment you were in darkness and the next moment all is light. All that is needed is to put the ego aside.
You just listen to your own heart. That is your only teacher.