When you cry and weep, when you are miserable, you are alone. When you celebrate, the whole existence participates with you. Only in celebration do w….

Meditation is a death - death of all that you are now. Of course there will be a resurrection, but that will be a totally new, fresh original being w….

Then the highest state of love is prayerfulness. In prayerfulness there is communion. In sex there is the I/it relationship, in love the I/thou relat….

You don't seem to have guts. There is no need to surrender to each other. Surrender to love means: enjoy in the happiness of the other, rejoice in th….

Bravery does not mean being fearless. It means to be full of fear but still not being dominated by it..

Zen is all-inclusive. It never denies, it never says no to anything; it accepts everything and transforms it into a higher reality..

"Serenity" is the flavor of meditation..

You become angry because something or someone has done something against your expectations..

Life isn't a balance between throwing out and inviting in..

How can one become enlightened? One can, because one is enlightened - one just has to recognize the fact..

If you want to possess things—money; if you want to possess yourself—meditation. And if you possess yourself, money loses all meaning..

Intelligence comes from meditation, intelligence comes from rebellion, intelligence does not come from memory.

Living in memories is an empty gesture..

That is the simple secret of happiness. Whatever you are doing, don’t let past move your mind; don’t let future disturb you. Because the past is no m….

A man who thinks that death is against life can never be non-violent. It is impossible. A man who thinks that death is the enemy can never be at ease….

When you have emptied all content - thoughts, desires, memories, projections, hopes - when all is gone, for the first time you find yourself, because….

NOW is the only reality. All else is either memory or imagination..

The whole society depends on creating ambition in you. Ambition means a conflict, ambition means that whatsoever you are, you are wrong - you have to….

Paradise is not somewhere else... it is within you. And it is not in some other time, after death... It is in you right now..

This is the sleep: being absent, being not present to the present moment, being somewhere else..

The word 'sin' is beautiful; it comes from a root which means 'forgetfulness'. You may not be able to see the connection between forgetfulness and si….