Occupation: Guru Birth: December 11, 1931 Death: January 19, 1990
I say unto you that suffering is not holding you, you are holding suffering.
To come to know that nothing is good, nothing is bad, is a turning point; it is a conversion. You start looking in; the outside reality loses meaning….
Love is authentic only when it gives freedom. Love is true only when it respects the other person's individuality, his privacy..
Being in deep devotion comes as a surprise the first time, because it is so difficult for people to feel even love, and devotion is the highest form ….
Truth is pure awareness..
You will have to learn ways of relaxing in the present. Enlightenment is not an effort to achieve something. It is a state of effortlessness. It is a….
The ego is an island in the ocean of Hell. You want to get rid of the Hell but you don't want to get rid of that island. Then there is trouble..
Move as a total being, and accept things. Just for twenty-four hours, try it - total acceptance, whatsoever happens. Someone insults you, accept it; ….
Celibacy can only be spontaneous, there is no other type of celibacy. If it is not spontaneous, it is not celibacy. You can force it. you can control….
Love can never possess. Love is giving freedom to the other. Love is an unconditional gift, it is not a bargain..
Be creative. Don`t be worried about what you are doing - one has to do many things - but do everything creatively, with devotion. Then your work beco….
Don't think in terms of comfort; think in terms of freedom. Don't think in terms of safety, think in terms of being more alive. And the only way to….
And why do we reduce the beauty of relating to relationship? Why are we in such a hurry? - because to relate is insecure, and relationship is a secur….
Will power is nothing but another name of ego power. A man of wisdom has no will, just as he has no mind - because to will means to keep yourself sep….
Misery nourishes your ego - that's why you see so many miserable people in the world. The basic, central point is the ego..
Each person comes into this world with a specific destiny--he has something to fulfill, some message has to be delivered, some work has to be complet….
All power is God`s power; we are only vehicles. He pulsates in our hearts. He breathes through us. He sings a thousand and one songs through us. Sann….
Your life sparks fires from within your innermost temple. No one can reach there but you, it is your inner sanctum. You are your own master there, on….
If you can become a mirror you have become a meditator. Meditation is nothing but skill in mirroring. And now, no word moves inside you so there is n….
Love makes you empty - empty of jealousy, empty of power trips, empty of anger, empty of competitiveness, empty of your ego and all its garbage. But ….
Buddha says: Meditation brings two things. It brings wisdom, it brings freedom. These two flowers grow out of meditation. When you become silent, utt….