Knowledge is available from the outside. Knowing needs an inner purification. Knowledge is information, knowing is your capacity to see, to understand. Knowledge never transforms anybody. It can make you a great scholar, but to be a scholar is to be nothing but a parrot. The scholar simply repeats: he is a gramophone record, neither […]
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All meditations are devices to bring your fragments together, to melt into each other, to create a kind of oneness in you, to bring a center to your being. Once that center starts growing you will have enough courage to go into the unknown; then you will risk all. And existence asks that you risk […]
The moment one starts seeking and searching for oneself, one becomes the blessed one. The inquiry itself is the beginning of the transformation. The more passionate the inquiry is, the sooner the transformation will come. Make it intense, make it total. Related posts: No related posts.
Silence is neither German nor English nor French. Anybody who falls into silence is no longer part of any nationality, any linguistic group, any race, any religion. Silence knows no boundaries, it is infinite; and to be in silence is to be in prayer. Related posts:
If we can understand a single drop of water , we have understood all the water that exists anywhere .And each man is a dewdrop of existence . If we can understand one man …And the easiest and the closest is existence . Once the mystery is understood , once the door is open , […]
The body may be ordinary: homely, and yet it may have a soul which is beyond comprehension, body may be very beautiful and may be utterly empty, with no soul at all. This will happen many times in your life; you will come across beautiful people who have no souls at all and you will […]
Each moment is so inestimably valuable , each moment is such a gift that one cannot be thankful enough for it.There is no way to show our gratitude to existence . Its gift is of such immense proportions that we don’t really deserve it . Existence has given out of its abundance . Knowing this […]
Unless your heart sings and dances you are not really living, you are only dragging: fulfilling certain duties, going through certain rituals, somehow managing and maintaining a facade. But deep inside, there is emptiness and a great trembling because one knows in the deepest part of the heart that life is not yet fulfilled, that […]
For your original face , you have to go inward . You have to discover it at the very core of your being . No mirror can help , no scripture can help . All the buddha’s can only indicate the way , but no buddha can go there with you . I can show […]
Seek godliness through beauty, the beauty of everything. Let that become your inquiry. Worship beauty, rejoice in beauty. And when you worship beauty and rejoice in beauty, you start becoming beautiful. Truth and good will follow. If one can attain one out of the three, the other two automatically come along. Related posts: