"Meditation will give you a little glimpse, a little taste, that the truth is inside you."

"Don't carry your mistakes with you. Instead, place them under your feet and use them as stepping stones."

"Live dangerously, live fully, live without fear."

"The mind: a beautiful servant, a dangerous master."

"Don't take life seriously, because seriousness kills creativity and joy."

"Freedom to dream has not yet been taken away by governments."

"Live in insecurity! Live in revolution! Be a rebel! Risk, because nothing is ever attained in life without risk. The more you risk, the closer you are to God. When you can risk all, all is yours."

"A conscious life is a fulfilled life."

"Let go of the need to control. The universe knows its way."

"Thinking goes on in your head. It is not really deep into the roots of your being, it is not your totality."

"Comparison is a poison that slowly kills your soul."

"Your aloneness is a blessing, not a curse."

"No one is superior, no one is inferior, but no one is equal either. People are simply unique."

"Remain in wonder if you want the mysteries to open up for you. Mysteries never open up for those who go on questioning. Questioners sooner or later end up in a library. Questioners sooner or later end up with scriptures, because scriptures are full of answers.And answers are dangerous, they kill your wonder."

"Whenever you act according to your own light, there is immense fulfillment."

"The more you love yourself, the less you seek validation from others."

"Dance as if nobody is watching, love as if you have never been hurt."

"Life begins where fear ends."

"Once you have known awareness, nothing is worth it-- you have known the greatest bliss of life. Then, suddenly, many things simply drop; they become stupid,become foolish. The motivation is not there,the desire is not there, the dreams have fallen."

"Zen is magic. It gives you the key to open the miraculous. And the miraculous is in you and the key is also in you."

"A happy person is one who is content with nothing."

"Celebrate yourself; there is no one like you in the whole existence."

"A fearless person lives fully, a fearful person just exists."

"You never suffer nearly as much as you imagine you suffer. You never suffer the illnesses you most dread nor the miseries that you fear."

"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."

"Untalented people, unintelligent people go into politics. Those who are talented become artists, painters, poets, philosophers, mystics, dancers. They have a thousand and one other beautiful things to do, not politics. Only the third rate, the most unintelligent part of a country, moves into politics."

"Who is a rebellious person? The rebellious person is one who does not bother about the society at all. He simply lives through his innermost core, he is one who follows his Tao."

"I cannot conceive that the man who dropped the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a machine. He also had a heart, just like you. He also had his wife and children, his old mother and father. He was as much a human being as you are-with a difference. He was trained to follow orders without questioning, and when the order was given, he simply followed it."

"Whenever you'll open your eyes, you will find nothing but ugliness and misery all around you. Everything looks fine when you are in an unconscious state. This is the reason why you find it difficult to conceive: CONSCIOUSNESS IS THE BEING. You say, Impossible! That's why one needs to go through pain. That is called tapascharya, spiritual practice. Whenever one begins to become aware, first he will have to go through suffering. For lives you have created misery around you, who else would pass through it if not you? That is what we have called the karma."

"Millions of people are suffering: they want to be loved but they don't know how to love. And love cannot exist as a monologue; it is a dialogue, a very harmonious dialogue."

"Be alone, that is the only way to find yourself."

"The Truth Is That Existence Wants Your Life To Become A Festival Because When You Are Unhappy, You Also Throw Unhappiness All Around."

"Enjoy this moment because it may not come again."

"Gods are always ready, their hands are always full with flowers. They simply watch and wait. Whenever somebody becomes a Subhuti, empty, whenever somebody is absent, suddenly the flowers start showering."

"No-thinking is the door. No-word is the gate. No-mind is the way."

"Dance like no one is watching, love like you have never been hurt."

"Don't seek security, seek adventure."

"The great appeal of drugs in the West is only because the West has succeeded in destroying the right hemisphere completely because of compulsory education."

"Just look around! This immense universe is functioning so perfectly well that nothing can be added to it. It needs no improvement. Seeing this, one relaxes. If stars can go on dancing and flowers can go on blooming and birds can go on singing, why not you? You also belong to this universe. You are part of it. In fact, you are the most valuable part of it, the greatest flowering is going to happen in you-the flowering of consciousness, the golden flower of being."

"Each person comes into this world with a specific destiny."

"Don't take life too seriously - learn to laugh at yourself."

"A rich man is one whose joy is not dependent upon external things."

"Forget the past, it is dead. The future is unknown. Live in the now."

"Lovers never meet - they are in each other all along."

"When somebody comes with a conclusion, then he looks through that conclusion and chooses only things which support his position.Logic is a prostitute.It can help anybody - for or against, it has no problem."

"The intelligent person depends on his own insight, not on beliefs."

"If one comes to fundamentals then this is the most fundamental thing: the moment you are not, enlightenment is. With emptiness, the matter is settled."

"You are here to celebrate, not to be miserable."

"Misery is a state of unconciousness. We are miserable because we are not aware of what we are doing, of what we are thinking, of what we are feeling -- so we are continuously contradicting ourselves each moment. Action goes in one direction,thinking goes in another,feeling is somewhere else. We go on falling apart, we become more and more fragmented.There are only two ways out of it. They can become meditators - alert,aware,conscious... that's an arduous thing. It needs guts. Or the cheaper way is to find something that can make you even more unconcious thank you are, so you cannot feel the misery,like drugs and alcohol,sometimes even religion..."

"Respect yourself enough to walk away from what doesn't serve you."