"Your love must not be a dependency; it must be your joy."

"Don't be afraid of losing everything because that fear prevents you from growing."

"Love is prayerfulness groping toward godliness. Love is poetry born out of the sheer joy of being. Love is song, dance, celebration: a song of gratitude, a dance of thankfulness, celebration for no reason at all, for this tremendous gift that goes on showering on us, for this whole universe, from the dust to the divine."

"Everything changes, except the truth."

"Whatever you feel, you become. It is your responsibility."

"A buddha lives in the orgasmic state for twenty-four hours, day in and day out. Between the day Gautama Buddha became enlightened and the day he died there is a distance of forty-two years. For these forty-two years he was utterly in an orgasmic state. Just think! Those few moments you have are nothing compared to a Buddha's."

"To be fearless is to trust existence completely."

"Never belong to a crowd. Stand alone and be free."

"Each moment is a new beginning."

"Be less of a judge and you will be surprised that when you become a witness, you have become a mystic."

"The world outside is a reflection of the world inside."

"I love, because my love is not dependent on the object of love. My love is dependent on my state of being. So whether the other person changes, becomes different, friend turns into a foe, does not matter, because my love was never dependent on the other person. My love is my state of being. I simply love."

"Meditation is the answer to all your questions."

"Every mistake is a new learning."

"Through understanding comes control. Through ignorance one goes on forcing and suppressing. Always do everything with understanding, and you never harm yourself or anybody else."

"You should live in the world but remain untouched by it."

"Real meditation means: don't avoid the inner madhouse; enter into it, face it, encounter it, be watchful, because it is through watchfulness that you will overcome it."

"You can love only when you are overflowing with joy, not when you are empty and needy."

"The world is not outside of you. The world is inside you."

"Create out of love, not out of fear."

"Love yourself and watch - today, tomorrow, always."

"The family is one of the greatest traps that society has used for millennia to keep man a slave."

"The greatest freedom is to be yourself without apology."

"The creative person has to dissolve all should and should nots. He needs freedom and space, vast space; he needs the whole sky and all the stars. Only then can his innermost spontaneity start growing."

"You are not the body, you are not the mind - you are the observer."

"The East has failed because it tried meditation without love. The West has failed because it tried love without meditation. My whole effort is to give you a synthesis, the whole-which means meditation plus love."

"Be the celebrators, celebrate! Already there is too much-the flowers have bloomed, the birds are singing, the sun is there in the sky-celebrate it! You are breathing and you are alive and you have consciousness, celebrate it!"

"Suffering is a misunderstanding."

"Zen is a single step-the journey of one single step. You can call it the last step or the first step, it doesn't matter. It is the first and it is the last, the alpha and the omega. The whole teaching of Zen consists of only one thing: how to take a jump into nothingness, how to come to the very end of your mind, which is the end of the world."

"If one is not a meditator, howsoever good one is it is all useless."

"Live life like a celebration, not a duty."

"Creators almost always go mad."

"Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation."

"With me, illusions are bound to be shattered. I am here to shatter all illusions. Yes, it will irritate you, it will annoy you - that's my way of functioning and working. I will sabotage you from your very roots! Unless you are totally destroyed as a mind, there is no hope for you."

"Be a witness, not a judge. Focus on yourself, not on others."

"Don't try to understand life. Live it!"

"If you want to live a joyful life, stop trying to prove yourself to others."

"Life is a mirror; it reflects what is within you."

"Create the highest, grandest vision for your life. Then let go and trust."

"Drop comparison and you are free. Don't compare, don't compete, just be yourself."

"How can I know these trees, how can I know you, how can I know the other if I myself am unknown to me, if I am myself ignorant; when I do not know who I am."

"Success is a natural byproduct of doing what you love."

"Meditation is the art of doing nothing and being everything."

"God is the name given by theologians to something they know nothing about. There is no God the whole existence is made of the stuff called love."

"Don't be unnecessarily burdened by the past. Go on closing chapters."

"So start with the waking state. When you are hungry eat, but always remember that it is the body that is hungry, not you. If you hurt your leg, wash and clean the wound, apply medication, but always remember that it is the body that is hurt, not you. This much remembrance " and you will find that ninety-nine percent of the pain has vanished. This slight knowledge, this little awareness removes so much of your suffering. One percent is bound to remain because the knowledge is not total. When knowledge becomes total all of the suffering disappears.Buddha said that an awakened person is beyond suffering. You can cut off the limbs of such a person, you can throw him in the fire, you can kill him, but you cannot make him suffer, because he stands apart from all that is happening around him."

"Real intelligence comes when you are silent."

"Everybody comes with prejudices, colored glasses on their eyes. Then they see everything colored according to their glasses. Yes, a few people come just like you, unprejudiced, without any idea gathered from yellow journalism."

"Intelligence is dangerous. Intelligence means you will start thinking for yourself."

"The heart has reasons that the mind will never understand."