When mind knows, we call it knowledge. When heart knows, we call it love. And when being knows, we call it meditation.
The less people know, the more stubbornly they know it.
When sadness comes, just sit by the side and look at it and say, "I am the watcher, I am not sadness," and see the difference. Immediately you have cut the very root of sadness. It is no more nourished. It will die of starvation. We feed these emotions by being identified with them.
Meaning is man-created. And because you constantly look for meaning, you start to feel meaninglessness.
Enjoyment is just the sound of being centered.
Marriage is an institution that teaches a man regularity, frugality, temperance, forbearance and many other splendid virtues he would not need had he stayed single.
We remain unnecessarily worried. All worries are futile because that which is going to happen is going to happen.
Remember, frustration is out of expectation, and ego is always expecting. The ego is a beggar.
It all depends on you. You can go on sleeping forever, you can wake up right this moment.
Life is a mystery,but man wants to reduce it to a problem!
Do the small things of life with a relaxed awareness. When you are eating, eat totally - chew totally, taste totally, smell totally. Touch your bread, feel the texture. Smell the bread, smell the flavor. Chew it, let it dissolve into your being.
The world is not a problem; the problem is your unawareness.
There is great difference between trust and belief. Trust is personal, Belief is social.
Attachment is not love. Where there is attachment there is exploitation.
Be creative. Don`t be worried about what you are doing - one has to do many things - but do everything creatively, with devotion. Then your work becomes worship. Then whatsoever you do is a prayer. And whatsoever you do is an offering at the altar.
To transform breakdowns into breakthroughs is the whole function of a master.
Live without expectations and there will be no frustration.
Freedom means the capability to say yes when yes is needed, to say no when no is needed, and sometimes to keep quiet when nothing is needed - to be silent, not to say anything. When all these dimensions are available, there is freedom.
Once your awareness becomes a flame, it burns up the whole slavery that the mind has created.
Only meditation, only silence, only transcending beyond your mind is going to give you contentment and fulfillment.
First become alone. First start enjoying yourself. First love yourself. First become so authentically happy that if nobody comes it doesn't matter; you are full, overflowing. If nobody knocks at your door it is perfectly okay; you are not missing. You are not waiting for someone to come and knock at the door. You are at home. If somebody comes: good-beautiful. If nobody comes that too is beautiful and good.
One has just to be oneself. That's my basic message. The moment you accept yourself as you are, all burdens, all mountainous burdens, simply disappear. Then life is a sheer joy, a festival of lights.
God is not in heaven - God is in the present moment. If you are also in the present moment you enter the temple.
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.
There are six senses: five are outer; they tell you about the world. I say something about the light; without eyes you will not know light. Ears say something about the sound; without ears you will not know anything about the sound. There is a sixth sense, the inner sense, that shows and tells you something about yourself and the ultimate source of things. That sense has to be discovered. Meditation is nothing but the discovery of the inner sense.
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