"You are not in the universe; you are the universe."

"Drop all masks, and you will find your true face."

"Your joy is your responsibility."

"Don't die before you die."

"You can't control the waves, but you can learn to surf."

"Life is very simple. Just sometimes put your head away, sometimes behead yourself, sometimes look with no clouds in the eyes - just look. Sometimes sit by the side of a tree - just feel. By the side of a waterfall - listen. Lie down on the beach and listen to the roar of the ocean, feel the sand, the coolness of it, or look at the stars, and let that silence penetrate you. Or look at the dark night and let that velvety darkness surround you, envelop you, dissolve you. This is the way of the simple heart."

"If you live, ego disappears. Life knows no ego, it knows only living and living and living. Life knows no self, no center; life knows no separation. You breathe - life enters into you; you exhale you enter into life. There is no separation. You eat, and trees enter into you through the fruit. Then one day you die, you are buried in the earth, and the trees suck you up and you become fruits. Your children will eat you again. You have been eating your ancestors - the trees have converted them into fruits. You think you are a vegetarian? Don't be deceived by appearances. We are all cannibals."

"Life is not a problem to be solved, it is a mystery to be lived."

"Courage is a love affair with the unknown."

"To live in the present is to be alive."

"This is the secret of the golden flower: if the heart can die the flower will bloom, die as you are so you can be reborn."

"Dance madly as if all of life is meant for dancing and celebrating."

"Enlightenment will be now the beginning, not the end. Beginning of a non-ending process in all dimensions of richness."

"Once you have heard the Indian Bamboo flute then everything else is just ordinary!"

"You feel what else is there to do in life apart from living? And even that is out of your control; it depends on an infinite number of factors. Everything is in your unconscious mind. Why sex desire arose in you, why you raised a family, how greed and anger entered you, why you were dishonest, why you accumulated wealth, why you made enemies " you have no idea! You are just like a puppet, whose strings are being pulled by someone else. You imagine you are dancing, but in fact it is someone else who is making you dance.Look closely at your life and you will find that you are nothing more than a puppet. How can anything real happen in the life of a man who is not his own master, but merely a puppet?"

"But life itself is without use. What is the purpose of it? Where are you going? What is the result? No purpose, no result, no goal. Life is a constant ecstasy, moment to moment you can enjoy it but if you start thinking of results you miss enjoying it, your roots are uprooted, you are no longer in it, you have become an outsider. And then you will ask for the meaning, for the purpose."

"Aloneness is the presence of oneself, solitude is the presence of God."

"Don't seek security; seek adventure. It is uncertainty that makes life worth living."

"A mind filled with questions is better than a mind full of answers."

"Meditation is the greatest gift you can give yourself."

"Real beauty is the radiance of joy."

"Respect yourself, love yourself, because there has never been a person like you and there never will be again."

"Always remember that you are the observer and not the doer. Do not take life to be anything more than acting. Don't identify yourself too much with the action.Whether you are a wife or husband, a businessman or client, don't get too involved. Don't lose yourself in it, for you are simply playing a role in the play. Keep outside of it, and within yourself. These are all necessary parts of life. You must go to work, it is necessary. The play is delightful if you see it as play, but it is fatal if you take it to be life. There is no reason so disrupt your life. You have to play the part that life has given you."

"You can either be a person who is a coward, afraid, ready to submit, surrender, a person who has himself no dignity, no respect for his own being-or you can be fearless. But then you are going to be a rebel, you cannot avoid that. Either you can be a man of faith or you are going to be a rebellious spirit."

"Be so busy enjoying your own life that you have no time to criticize others."

"One has to get rid of the self. Once the self is thrown away, nothing is lacking. You start overflowing and blossoms start falling on you."

"Do what you love, and love what you do."

"When ambition disappears, happiness appears."

"There is no higher power than love."

"Detach from the noise and listen to your inner voice."

"Be yourself, nobody can do it better than you."

"Love needs no reason, it speaks from the irrational wisdom of the heart."

"A wise man does not follow the crowd. He follows his own light."

"Nothing has to be done - just be alert, watchful, and the transformation happens by itself."

"Real love begins when nothing is expected in return."

"He accepts life in all its facets, in all its climates and colors. He alone does not choose he accepts life unconditionally. He does not shun love; being a man he does not run away from women. As one who has known and experienced God, he alone does not turn his face from war. He is full of love and compassion, and yet he has the courage to accept and fight a war. His heart is utterly non violent, yet he plunges into the fire and fury of violence when it becomes unavoidable. He accepts the nectar, and yet he is not afraid of poison."

"It is not a question of money, power, or prestige; it is a question of peace and love."

"True love allows freedom, not possession."

"You were born to be real, not to be perfect."

"Become like a river - always flowing, never stagnant."

"Don't just survive, thrive."

"Never be a follower, always be a learner."

"You are not in any way aware that you are already victorious, that life has happened to you. You are already a winner and nothing more is possible, all that could happen has happened to you. You are already an emperor, and there is no other kingdom to be won. But you have not recognized it, you have not known the beauty of the life that has already happened to you. You have not known the silence, the peace, the bliss that is already there.And because you are not aware of the inner kingdom, you always feel that something more is needed, some victory, to prove that you are not a beggar."

"Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece."

"The moment you become miserly you are closed to the basic phenomenon of life: expansion, sharing. The moment you start clinging to things, you have missed the target--you have missed. Because things are not the target, you, your innermost being, is the target--not a beautiful house, but a beautiful you; not much money, but a rich you; not many things, but an open being, available to millions of things."

"Intelligence is not information. Intelligence is imagination and creativity."

"A religious person is one who is deeply rebellious."

"The day you leave, this will be your only contentment: if you have made the existence a little more beautiful."

"Fear is always around some desire. You want to become a famous man, the most famous man in the world- then there is fear. What if you cannot make it? Fear comes. You want to become the richest man in the world. What if you don't succeed? You start trembling; fear comes. You want to possess a woman and you are afraid that tomorrow you may not be able to hold on to her, she may go to somebody else."

"To be "great" is an ego goal; to be real is existential."