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1) ”Now they are a circle, and they vibrate together, they pulsate together. Their hearts are no longer separate, their beats are no longer separate, they have become a melody, a harmony. It is the greatest music possible, all other musics are just faint things compared to it, shadow things compared to it.”
2) ”Discover yourself, otherwise you have to depend on other people’s opinions who don’t know themselves.”
3) ”Trust does not mean that everything will be right. Trust means everything is already all right.”
4)”Meaning is man-created. And because you constantly look for meaning, you start to feel meaninglessness.”
5) ”NOW is the only reality. All else is either memory or imagination.”
6) ”Nobody is superior, nobody is inferior, but nobody is equal either. People are simply unique, incomparable. You are you, I am I.”
7) ”Discover yourself, otherwise you have to depend on other people’s opinions who don’t know themselves.”
8) ”Trust does not mean that everything will be alright. Trust means everything is already all right.”
9) ”Meaning is man-created. And because you constantly look for meaning, you start to feel meaninglessness.”
10) ”You are not accidental. The world needs you. Without you, something will be missing in existence and nobody can replace it.”
11) ”Without possessions, success, fame; who are you?”
12) ”Life in itself is an empty canvas; it becomes whatsoever you paint on it. You can paint misery, you can paint bliss. This freedom is your glory.”
13) ”The real question is not whether life exists after death. The real question is whether you are alive before death.”
14) ”The only thing that matters in life, is your own opinion about yourself.”
15) ”Unless you drop your personality you will not be able to find your individuality. Individuality is given by existence; personality is imposed by the society.”
16) ”People say love is blind because they do not know what love is. I say unto you, only love has eyes, other than love, everything is blind.”
17) ”Nobody else can destroy you except you; nobody else can save you except you. You are the Judas and you are the Jesus.”
18) ”Accept yourself as you are. And that is the most difficult thing in the world, because it goes against your training, education, your culture.”
19) ”Your honesty, your love, your compassion should come from your inner being not from teachings and scriptures.”
20) ”Once your awareness becomes a flame, it burns up the whole world slavery that the mind has created.”
21)”Next time when anger comes just watch it. Don’t say I am angry. Say, anger is there and I am watching it. And see the difference.”
22) ”The moment you accept yourself, you become beautiful.”
23) ”Don’t try to force anything. Let life be a deep let-go. God opens millions of flowers everyday without forcing their buds.”
24) ”If you are courageous, listen to the heart. If you are a coward, listen to the head.”
25) ”Don’t be angry at life. It is not life that is frustrating you, it is you who are not listening to life.”
26) ”Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.”
27) ”The heart is like a flower. Unless it is open, it cannot release its fragrance into the world.”
28) ”Enjoy every simple things with total intensity. Just a cup of ta can be a deep meditation.”
29) ”My love is unconditional.Your action is irrelevant.”
30) ”Come out of the masses. Stand alone like a lion and live your life according to your own light.”
31) ”Except for our bodies there are no other temples in the world.”
32) ”The less people know, the more stubbornly they know it.”
33) ”Love can never possess. Love is giving freedom to the other. Love is an unconditional gift, it is not a bargain.”
34) ”Belief is a deception you play upon yourself.”
35) ”It does not matter if you are a rose or a lotus or a marigold. What matters is that you are flowering.”
36) ”We never ask the meaning of life when we are in love.”
37) ”When you are different the whole world is different. It is not a question of creating a different world. It is only a question of creating a different you.”
38) ”Never be ashamed of your tears. Be proud that you are still natural. Be proud that you can express the inexpressible through your tears.”
39) ”Nobody is here to fulfill your dream. Everybody is here to fulfill his own destiny, his own reality.”
40) ”You exist in time, but you belong to eternity.”
41) ”Never ask, ‘who is my real friend?’ Ask, Am I a real friend to somebody?” That is the question. Always be concerned with yourself.”
42) ”The man of control lives in choice, and the man of understanding lives in choicelessness.”
43) ”Once you have known the generosity of existence you will never feel miserable.”
44) ”Never sacrifice your life for anything, sacrifice anything for life, life is the ultimate goal.”
45) ”The world is not a problem; the problem is your unawareness.”
46) ”Watch, witness. Your body is not you; your mind is not you. You are just a pure witness.”
47) ”We remain unnecessarily worried. All worries are futile because that which is going to happen is going to happen.”
48) ”The moment the child is born, the mother is also born. She never exist before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.”
49) ”Paradise is within you, in your state of no-mind. And hell is also within you, in your very mind.”
50) ”Find the light and it will show you the path. The path that is shown by your own light is the only path that is right.”
51) ”You just listen to your own heart. That is your only teacher.”
52) ”Respect your uniqueness, and drop comparison. Relax into your being.”
53) ”Only people who carry the opinions of others need the support of others.”
54) ”Only meditation, only silence, only transcending beyond your mind is going to give you contentment and fulfillment.”
55) ”Be-don’t try to become. Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance.”
56) ”A certain darkness is needed to see the stars.”
57) ”Comparison is a very foolish attitude, because each person is unique and incomparable. Once this understanding settles in you, jealousy disappears.”
58) ”Expectation always lead to frustrations. Expectations are the seeds, and frustration is the crop that sooner or later you will have to reap. It is your own doing.”
59) ”Life is a mystery, but man wants to reduce it to a problem.”
60) ”Live without expectations and there will be no frustration.”
61) ”Get out of your head and get into your heart. Think less, feel more.”
62) ”Fighting with anybody is very dangerous because you become like your enemy.”
63) ”God is not in heaven-God is in the present moment. If you are also in the present moment you enter the temple.”
64) ”Drop the idea that attachment and love are one thing. They are enemies. It is attachment that destroys all love.”
65) ”When mind knows we call it knowledge. When heart knows,we call it love. And when being knows, we call it meditation.”
66) ”Courage is a love affairs with the unknown.”
67) ”There is no need to be more-you are enough. Everybody is enough.”
68) ”Don’t say this is good and that is bad. Drop all discrimination. Accept everything as it is.”
69) ”Love is the first step towards the divine, surrender is the last. And two steps is the whole journey.”
70) ”Beware:don’t choose the convenient, the comfortable, the respectable, the socially acceptable. Choose something that rings a bell in your heart.”
71) ”Meditation will drop all the masks. It is a search for the original face.”
72) ”Lovers never surrender to each other, lovers simply surrender to love.”
73) ”Life exists without rules; games cannot exist without rules. So real religion is always without rules; only false religion has rules, because false religion is a game.”
74) ”In love the other is important; in lust you are important.”
75) ”It all depends on you. You can go on sleeping forever, you can wake up right this moment.”
76) ”There are very few joys in life greater than spontaneity. Spontaneity means to be in the moment; it means acting out of your awareness, not acting according to your old conditioning.”
77) ”Marriage is an institution that teaches a man regularity, frugality, temperance, forbearance and many other splendid virtues he would not need had he stayed single.”
78) ”Knowledge is not information,it’s transformation.”
79) ”The ego does not, cannot live in the present, because the present is real and ego is false-they never meet.”
80) ”If you clean the floor with love, you have done an invisible painting. Live each moment in such delight that it gives you something inner.”
81) ”Life begins where fear ends.”
82) ”Withdraw your awareness from everywhere and just let it rest within yourself, and you have arrived home.”
83) ”To be alone and to be drunk with your own loneliness is what meditation is all about. Be in the world, but don’t let of it.”
84) ”Become more and more innocent, less knowledgeable and more childlike. Take life as fun-because that’s precisely what it is.”
85) ”How much longer will you go on letting your energy sleep? How much longer are you going to stay oblivious of the immensity of yourself?”
86) ”Time is a need of the miserable mind. Time is a creation of misery. If you are happy there is no time to disappears.”
87) ”There is great difference between trust and belief. Trust is personal, belief is social.”
88) ”Man is always exploited through fear.”
89) ”Listening means forgetting yourself completely-only then can you listen.”
90) ”Fear comes from the mind, love comes from your heart; listen to the heart.”
91) ”Wisdom is a very relaxed state of being. Wisdom is not knowledge, not information; wisdom is your inner being awake, alert, watchful, witnessing, full of light.”
92) ”Happiness is an art that one has to learn. It has nothing to do with your doing or not doing.”
93) ”I live my life based on 2 principles. One, I live as if today was my last day on earth. Two, I live today as if I am going to live forever.”
94) ”In the moment of deep creativity you disappear, God again starts functioning.”
95) ”Falling in love you remain a child; rising in love you mature. By and by love becomes not a relationship, it becomes a state of your being. Not that you are in love-now you are love.”
96) ”All your personalities are absolutely cover-ups, hiding your individuality.”
97) ”Bravery does not mean being fearless. It means to be full of fear but still not being dominated by it.”
98) ”If you wish to see the truth, then hold no opinion for or against.”
99) ”Be realistic; Plan for a miracle.”
100) ”A very sensitive person in this stupid world is bound to become mad, only meditation can save him from becoming mad.”
101) ”Egolessness is contentment.”
101) ”Whatsoever you hide goes on growing, and whatsoever you expose, if it is wrong it disappears, evaporates in the sun, and if it is right it is nourished.”
102) ”Always remember to judge everything by your inner feeling of bliss.”
103) ”My whole teaching consist of two words, meditation and love.”
104) ”Easy is right. Being right and you are easy, Easy is right means natural is right, effortlessness is right, egolessness is right.”
105) ”Attachment is the root cause of all misery. Possessiveness is nourishment for the ego.”
106) ”Death is the greatest illusion of all.”
107) ”Encounter every situation with your total consciousness, without any guilt. Enjoy music, enjoy food, enjoy love, enjoy everything that is natural.”
108) ”We ask for happiness but what we get in unhappiness. We all put our efforts into trying to be happy but we make a fundamental mistake; happiness is not related to the effort, happiness is related to not asking for it.”
109) ”You cannot live with expectations because life has no obligation to fulfill your desires. You can live with an open heart, but you cannot live with expectations. The more expectations you have, the more frustrated you will be.”
110) ”Tomorrow-drop that word from your vocabulary. Tomorrow does not exist, it cannot exist; it is not in the nature of things. only this day exist.”
111) ”Nobody can teach you love. Love you have to find yourself; within your being by raising your consciousness to higher levels.”
112) ”Anybody who gives you a belief system is your enemy, because the belief system becomes the barrier for your eyes, you cannot see the truth.”
113) ”Existence is a mystery, and one should accept it as a mystery and not pretend to have any expectation.”
114) ”If you want to possess things-money; if you want to possess yourself-meditation. And if you possess yourself, money loses all meaning.”
115) ”Surrendering means non-desiring.”
116) ”Be like an alone peak high in the sky. Why should you hanker to belong? You are not a thing. Things belong.”
117) ”This has to be your first lesson in sannyas; accept yourself, love yourself, drop all guilt, don’t divide yourself. There is nothing higher, nothing lower, all of you is divine. The lowest is an divine as the highest.”
118) ”If you were only to listen, it becomes meditation. Without meditation you cannot hear. What is the meaning of meditation? Meditation exists only where mind is not; where the internal dialogue is gone.”
119) ”Life is happiness and unhappiness. Life is day and night, lfe is life and death. You have to be aware of both.”
120) ”If you are not capable of being alone, your relationship is false. It is just a trick to avoid your loneliness, nothing else.”
121) ”To remain absolutely free is what a true and authentic life is. So never gather any character-remain characterless.”
122) ”The freedom from something is not true freedom. The freedom do to anything you want to do is also not the freedom I am talking about. My vision of freedom is to be yourself.”
123) ”Life is a mirror, it reflects your face. Be friendly, and all of life will reflect friendliness.”
124) ”Look deep into your throbbing life and you will find the quality of the divine. You will not find a God but you will find a Godliness, a truth, an awakening, a Buddha.”
125) ”Awareness means you come with an inner light, you move fully alert. Each step is taken in awareness-the walking, the coming, the sitting-everything is done in full awareness.”
126) ”Life reflects, life resounds, life echoes whatsoever you throw at life.”
127) ”Find Godliness and good will come on its own accord. And when good comes on its own accord, it has a beauty, a grace, a simplicity, a humbleness.”
128) ”Those who have known death from inside lose all fear of death.”
129) ”You become angry because something or someone has done something against your expectation.”
130) ”The beauty of facing life unprepared is tremendous. Then life has a newness, a youth; then life has a flow and freshness. Then life has so many surprises. And when life has so many surprises, boredom never settles in you.”
131) ”Drop envy and jealousy, otherwise there is no possibility, because love cannot exist where envy and jealousies exist.”
132) ”Seriousness is a sickness; your sense of humor makes you more human, more humble. The sense of humor-according to me-is one of the most essential parts of religiousness.”
133) ”Love and laughter go together, and laughter is one of the greatest medicines.”
134) ”A small room is enough; a small quantity of food is enough; a few clothes are enough; one lover, a very ordinary man.”
135) ”A man becomes a Buddha the moment he accept all that life brings with gratitude.”
136) ”Creativity itself is divine. Creativity itself is Godliness.”
137) ”Good happens only when you have moved out of the way and left yourself totally empty, spacious. It is a very strange phenomenon; The guest only comes inside the house when the host disappears.”
138) ”Mind is a broken mirror.”
139) ”No meditation, no life. Known meditation, known life.”
140) ”A Sannyasin has to relax to that total state of let-go when everything happens and nothing is done.”
141) ”Sadness comes, joy comes, and everything passes by. What remains always is the witness. The witness is beyond all polarities.”
142) ”You say that in heaven there is eternal beauty. The eternal beauty is here and now, not in heaven.”
143) ”Take it easy, and remember ”easy is right.”
144) ”The day you think you known, your death has happened-because now there will be no wonder and no joy and no surprise. Now you will live a dead life.”
145) ”Love is a state of being; it has nothing to do with anybody else. One is not in love, one is love.”
146) ”When you become centered, suddenly there is great freedom because you know you are not the mind and you are not the body.”
147) ”The deeper you surrender to existence, life, nature, the more loving, more understanding, more insightful you become.”
148)”You want a love which is born out of meditation, not born out of mind.”
149) ”Death is more important than life. Life is just the trivial, just the superficial; death is deeper. Through death you grow to the real life, and through life you only reach death and nothing else.”
150) ”If you are ready to be intimate, you will encourage the other person also to be intimate. Your unpretentious simplicity will allow the other also to enjoy simplicity, innocence, trust, love, openness.
151) ”Only the rich can achieve enlightenment because the poor are too busy looking for fridge freezers.”
152) ”And then comes unhappiness,and one does not become unhappy either. One says, ‘A block cloud passing. I am the witness, the watcher.’
153)”Real creativity comes only out of silence.”
154) ”I am here to seduce you into a love of life; to help you to become a little more poetic; to help you die to the mundane and to the ordinary so that the extraordinary explodes in your life.”
155) ”Only disciplined people become free,but their discipline is not obedience to others; their discipline is obedience to their own inner voice. And they are ready to risk anything for it.”
156) ”Only no-mind can be without any duality, because it is empty. The no-mind is choicelessness. The no-mind is pure awareness. It is just the empty sky.”
157) ”Look at trees, look at the birds, look at the clouds, look at the stars and if you have eyes you will be able to see that the whole existence is joyful.”
158) ”Science is concerned about quantity; religion is concerned about quality. Religion is concerned with the art of how to live life and how to die life.”
159) ”Mind only thinks, meditation lives.”
160) ”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.”
161) ”If you love a person you will not interfere with his personal life. You would not dare to break the boundaries of his inner world.”
162) ”The past is no more and the future is not yet: both are unnecessarily moving in directions which don’t exist. One used to exist, but no longer exists, and one has not even started to exist. The only right person is one who lives moment to moment.”
163) ”You should live in the world but remain untouched by it. You should remain in the world, but the world should not remain in you.”
164) ”To avoid pain, they avoid pleasure. To avoid death, they avoid life.”
165) ”They say: Think twice before you jump. I say: Jump first and then think as much as you want!”
166) ”Don’t try to understand life. Live it! Don’t try to understand love. Move into love. Then you will know and that knowing will come out of your experiencing.”
167) ”Be – don’t try to become.”
168) ”Get out of your head and get into your heart. Think less, feel more.”
169) ”Mind: A beautiful servant, a dangerous master.”
170) ”Only laughter makes a man rich, but the laughter has to be blissful.”
171) ”You are not here accidentally – you are here meaningfully. There is a purpose behind you. The whole intends to do something through you.”
172) ”Never be ashamed of your tears. Be proud that you are still natural. Be proud that you can express the inexpressible through your tears.”
173) ”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 completed.”
174) ”Don’t seek, don’t search, don’t ask, don’t knock, don’t demand – relax. If you relax it comes, if you relax it is there. If you relax, you start vibrating with it.”
175) ”Existence cannot go wrong. If it does not fulfill our desires, that simply means our desires were wrong.”
176) ”The feminine is more powerful than the masculine, the soft is more powerful than the hard, the water is more powerful than the rock.”
177) ”A woman is to be loved, not understood. That is the first understanding.”
178) ‘Love the person, but give the person total freedom. Love the person, but from the very beginning make it clear that you are not selling your freedom.
179) ”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.”
180) ”It is beautiful to be alone, it is also beautiful to be in love, to be with people. And they are complementary, not contradictory.
181) ”Falling in love, you remain a child; rising in love, you mature. By and by love becomes not a relationship, it becomes a state of your being. Not that you are in love – now you are love.”
182) ”Commit as many mistakes as possible, remembering only one thing: don’t commit the same mistake again. And you will be growing.”
183) ”Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence.”
184) ”Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.”
185) ”A little foolishness, enough to enjoy life, and a little wisdom to avoid the errors, that will do.”
186) ”Don’t be afraid of experience, because the more experience you have, the more mature you become.”
