"Try to relax, and you will find it, that you feel more tense than ever. Try harder and you will feel more tense and more tense. Relaxation is not a consequence, is not a result of some activity; it is the glow of understanding."
"Truth cannot be transferred, truth cannot be handed over to you by somebody else, because it is not a commodity. It is not a thing, it is an experience."
"Heaven is here -- you just have to know how to live it. And hell too is here, and you know perfectly well how to live it. It is only a question of changing your perspective, your approach towards life."
"Our mind is greedy; it is always after some gain, some profit, some achievement. It goes on asking, 'What will I gain if I go to the ocean? What will I achieve if I seek samadhi or nirvana or emptiness?' We always ask what we are going to achieve, and we never ask –...
"This small life that you have got can be turned into a paradise. This very earth is the lotus paradise."
"The most divine mission of every human being is to explore himself. We all contain a seed, which is the source of unlimited possibilities and our link to GOD. The nurturing of this seed is the source of fulfillment and joy. The pursuit of own understanding is the...
"You have to be grateful to existence that it has chosen you to be a passage for a few beautiful children. But you are not to interfere in their growth, in their potential. You are not to impose yourself upon them. They are not going to live in the same times, they...
"Those who want just to think about life, about living, about love -- for them, past and future are perfectly beautiful because they give them infinite scope. They can decorate their past, make it as beautiful as they like -- although they never lived it; when it was...
"For those who want to live -- not to think about it, but to love; not to think about it, but to be; not to philosophize about it -- there is no other alternative: then drink the present moment's juices. Squeeze it totally because it is not going to come back again....
"The present has nothing to do with time. If you are just here in this moment, there is no time. There is immense silence, stillness, no movement; nothing is passing, everything has come to a sudden stop."