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You will not become dependent on the people you love. You will share - and sharing is beautiful.

Relationship is a mirror.. Every moment the other reveals you, exposes you. The closer the relationship, the clearer is the mirror.

That is the ultimate synthesis - when Zorba becomes a Buddha. I am trying to create here not Zorba the Greek but Zorba the Buddha.

Create the way by your walking; you will not find a ready-made path

Each obsession is a knot in your being. Once it is opened, great energy is released

Become alert! Relationship destroys love, destroys the very possibility of its birth.

When you bring the light into your dark house, that is when you see the cobwebs and spiders

There is no God other than life itself.

Love is life, love is god, love is sannyas!

The ego is like too many dark clouds around the sun - the sun gets lost

Unless you have the courage to doubt you will never come to know the truth.

Bliss needs to be shared; it exists only in sharing.

If you are courageous, listen to the heart. If you are a coward, listen to the head.

Love and laughter go together; and laughter is one of the greatest medicines.

Relax, let go. But remember only one thing: You are a witness.

All duality is a mind creation, all duality is created by the clinging and attached mind. When there is no attachment there is no duality.

Remember: no attachment should grow, no clinging should grow. They are all against your independence, your freedom, your individuality.

If this is understood then things become very clear. Misery makes you special. Happiness is a universal phenomenon, there is nothing special about it.

Love brings freedom. Loyalty brings slavery.

Create inner freedom through witnessing. Sannyas is only for the inner freedom. And live out of inner freedom.

Grace is a feminine quality.

Accept yourself as you are. And that is the most difficult thing in the world, because it goes against your training, education, your culture.

Sex is the seed, love is the flower, compassion is the fragrance.

Life is happiness and unhappiness. Life is day and night, life is life and death. You have to be aware of both.

Moving from love, not fear - a beautiful idea, especially when applied literally to the body.

A really religious person has no theology. Yes, he has the experience, he has the truth, he has that luminosity, but he has no theology.

Have you not watched it yourself? Whenever you are total in something there is celebration.

I would like marriage to disappear completely from the world, and with marriage, divorce will disappear.

Life is absolutely balanced between the positive and the negative. Now it is your choice which side you want to be - in heaven or in hell.

Love is not a higher quality than truth.

Man is born only as a potential. He can become a thorn for himself and for others, he can also become a flower for himself and for others.

[T]hat is the true function of meditation: to create a space in you where you can be rich, infinitely rich, utterly peaceful, absolutely ecstatic.

Once you have known the generosity of existence you will never feel miserable.

Zen says everything is divine so how can anything be special? All is special. Nothing is non-special so nothing can be special.

The whole play of existence is so beautiful that laughter can be the only response to it. Only laughter can be the real prayer, gratitude.

God is not in heaven - God is in the present moment. If you are also in the present moment you enter the temple.

You are creating your own hell.

Creativity itself is divine. Creativity itself is godliness.

Life is a garden. It is an opportunity. You can grow weeds, you can grow roses; it all depends on you.

You can come to know the truth only when you are in love. But love never argues. There is no argument in love, because there is no aggression.

Zen people love Buddha so tremendously that they can even play jokes upon him. It is out of great love; they are not afraid.

Religion is consciousness-raising. It raises you higher than the problem, it gives you a bird's-eye view.

Remember, meditation cannot be result-oriented; you simply meditate, that's all.

If you are absolutely without mind, just pure consciousness, time stops completely, disappears, leaving no trace behind.

Life is not a tragedy, it is a comedy. To be alive means to have a sense of humor.

The West has made people too time-conscious, not knowing where they are going but speeding to get there because time is short.

Jesus was a lover of life, a very affirmative person, but Christianity is life-negative.

Darkness is the absence of light. Absences do not exist. Sin does not exist .

It does not matter if you are a rose or a lotus or a marigold. What matters is that you are flowering.

You just listen to your own heart. That is your only teacher.

Friendship is a relationship, friendliness is a state of your being. You are simply friendly; to whom, that is not the point ...

Passing through the fire of meditation, everything that is not your authentic reality, everything that is borrowed, will be burned away.

If you are silent through meditation, utterly silent, suddenly you feel a tremendous urge to create something.

Walk, with awareness. Eat, with awareness. Breathe, with awareness.

When it comes to deciding between your love and your truth, truth has to be the decisive factor.

When I say that you are gods and goddesses I mean that your possibility is infinite, your potentiality is infinite.

You can change your attachment from this to that, but you will be in misery. Attachment creates misery.

At its highest, love is a religious state of consciousness. I love you too, Buddha loves, Jesus loves, but their love demands nothing in return.

Life is a mirror, it reflects your face. Be friendly, and all of life will reflect friendliness.

My function here is to destroy all hypocrisy in you.

How can one become enlightened? One can, because one is enlightened - one just has to recognize the fact.

Be - don't try to become. Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance.

The less the head, the more the wound will heal. No head there is no wound. Live a headless life. Move as a total being, and accept things.

All of the religions are looking after the poor. At least leave me alone to look after the rich. I am the rich man's guru.

To come across a Master and to miss the Master is the greatest accident, very unfortunate, that can happen to a man.

As the witnessing deepens, you start becoming drunk with the divine. This is what is called ecstasy.

Meditation is the breath of your soul. Just as breathing is the life of the body, meditation is the life of the soul.

God cannot be an object. It is deepest depth of your own being. How can you see it.

If somebody asks, "What is a dance?" how can you define it? But you can dance and you can know the inner feel of it.

Meditation is the most significant because it opens the door for all other significant things: love, prayer, God, light, music, poetry.

That which is lived becomes divine and that which is not lived bcms devil.

A sannyasin has to relax to that total state of let-go when everything happens and nothing is done.

We have come into the world naked, and all the animals are naked, why should man hide his body behind clothes?

Once you start drinking a little of meditativeness, a little of love, you start growing wings.

This is the Zen approach: nothing is there to be done. There is nothing to do. One has just to be. Have a rest and be ordinary and be natural.

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.

The desire to rule over others, the will to power, is one of the greatest crimes that man has committed.

You can succeed only with God, never against him. You can succeed only with the whole, never against it.

Enlightenment is nothing but your consciousness being concentrated on a single point - now and here.

Freedom is a ladder: one side of the ladder reaches hell, the other side touches heaven. It is the same ladder; the choice is yours.

Only when there are many people who are pools of peace, silence, understanding, will war disappear.

Meditation is neither of the body nor of the mind, but belongs to the third within you - your being.

To be here and now, you have to be in meditation, beyond mind.

Love is your song - you can sing it any time. It is like breathing. Nobody is going to take it away from you; nobody can take it away from you.

Individuality is that which you bring into the world.

Destroying something, any idiot can do. Creating needs intelligence.

Never obey anyone's command unless it is coming from within you also.

Pleasure is always something apposed to pain it is never separate from pain

That is my work, to transform your life from a sad affair into a celebration.

Anger simply shows that something in you is hurt, some wound is there.

Sadness is not necessarily something bad. Don't judge it as a bad or negative quality.

Anywhere everywhere! Anything anyhow! just dance!

When sex disappears the tremendous energy of love is left behind. Each ugly thing in your mind, disappearing, leaves a great treasure behind.

Paradise is within you, in your state of no-mind. And hell is also within you, in your very mind.

Just a little detachment from the ego is needed.

Practise love. Sitting alone in your room, be loving. Radiate love. Fill the whole room with your love energy.

Life isn't a balance between throwing out and inviting in.

God is not the Creator, He is creativity. Creativity is His being. He has always been creating.

God is the source of all creativity. You can be creative only when you are EN RAPPORT with God.

Tomorrow never comes.