"A man who is afraid of being alone has never truly met himself."

"Sex has become more and more attractive because of its condemnation by priests."

"Your presence is the greatest gift you can offer."

"Risk all. Let life be a play, a risk, a gamble. And when you can risk all you will attain to a sharpness in your being: your soul will be born. The Golden Flower can bloom in you only if you are courageous, daring. It blooms only in courage."

"Look for the original. Everything else is just an illusion."

"Accept yourself as you are, and that is the beginning of wisdom."

"Buddhas also have to be swept away, because the door can become a hindrance if you cling to it."

"Be ordinary, but bring a quality of awareness to your ordinary life."

"If you cannot enjoy your own company, who else will?"

"Truth cannot be taught, only experienced."

"Forgiveness is the highest form of love."

"You are the sky, everything else is just passing clouds."

"The mind is a good servant but a bad master."

"When you stop struggling, you float."

"You were born perfect, you only forgot."

"Zen is the purest of meditations: just sit silently, doing nothing."

"No injustice ever takes place in this universe. Whatsoever happens is always just and right, for there is no human being sitting up there doing either justice or injustice. The universe is ruled by certain laws, and these laws constitute religion."

"Find ecstasy within yourself. It is not out there. It is within you."

"Man cannot be reduced to slavery if he is not distorted first. The politician and the priest have been in a deep conspiracy down the ages. They have been reducing humanity to a crowd of slaves. They are destroying every possibility of rebellion in man-and love is rebellion, because love listens only to the heart and does not care a bit about anything else."

"So as long as you have not attained to desirelessness, as long as you have not renounced desires completely, you will go on taking births and wandering in different bodies. And howsoever different the forms of the body may be, their basic condition is always the same. The ills of the body are the same, regardless whether it's a bird's body or man's. There is no difference in their miseries, because the fundamental misery is only one: the soul becoming confined in the body, the entering of the soul into the prison of body. A prison after all is a prison; it makes no difference whether its walls are circular or angular no matter what you think."

"Life begins only where fear ends."

"To be human is to be divine; you just have to realize it."

"If you are in love, you are fearless."

"Zen gives you tremendous dignity. There is no authority anywhere. Freedom is utter and ultimate."

"A man who is at ease with himself is never alone."

"To love means to drop all barriers."

"Do not force love. Let it flow naturally."

"Everything you seek is already within you."

"Mind lives in comparisons, and the moment you drop comparisons, mind disappears."

"Let go of your past, or it will keep you from your future."

"Sadness has a depth; it can make you more sensitive and aware."

"You are not here to be somebody's shadow; you are here to be the light."

"Life is a mystery, not a riddle. It has to be lived, not solved."

"The journey is not about reaching somewhere, it is about enjoying each step."

"Silence is not empty, it is full of answers."

"Faith is blind, trust has eyes."

"Do not chase happiness. Enjoy the moment."

"Drop the past. The past is no more, and the future is not yet."

"Life is a balance between letting go and holding on."

"That's what meditation is all about, to be capable of being alone. And remember, aloneness is not loneliness. Loneliness is the state of the person who cannot live alone; loneliness means you are dependent on the crowd, on the other. Aloneness means you are happy with yourself, you are not dependent on anybody. The moment you are not dependent you are an emperor, you are a god, a goddess. Now you have something to share, you can go into the world."

"The mystery is solved when you have become the mystery itself."

"The past is a shadow; the present is real."

"Live intensely, but with awareness."

"The greatest courage in life is to be yourself."

"Always remember that when a new moment, a new insight, hovers around you, choose the new because the old has not done anything for you, so what is the point of going back? Even if the new proves wrong, then too, choose the new. At least it will be a new adventure; you will come to know something."

"To be creative means to be in love with life."

"The past and the future are distractions. Live only in the present moment."

"But these trees don't grow impatiently. They move with a grace, with patience, with trust. There is no hurry anywhere else except in your mind. If you really want to be in a state of peace and joy, you will have to unlearn your old habit for achieving things quickly."

"Joy is spiritual. It is different from pleasure."

"Be loving, but not foolish. Be open, but not naive."