We have wings, but we have not used them yet. And because we have not used them, we have become oblivious that they are there. Small wings are not that small because they can cover the whole sky: their capacity is infinite, immense, immeasurable. There is nothing more beautiful than a bird on the wing. […]
In life, only change is an unchanging phenomenon. So the man of understanding never clings to anything. Seeing that everything changes, there is no point in clinging. It is foolish, it is unintelligent; you create your own misery and then you condemn the whole world. The world is not responsible. Nobody is responsible for your […]
Although a bee gathers honey from many flowers, it never destroys any of the flowers. It is very artful, very gracious. It does not hurt. In fact, the flower feels tremendously joyous when a bee comes to it. It is really a compliment. And the bee is never destructive. It collects whatsoever it needs, but […]
People become clingers, and the more you cling to the other, the more the other becomes afraid. The other wants to escape because there is a tremendous inner need to be free. The desire for freedom is higher than any other desire, deeper than any other desire. So one can even sacrifice love, but one […]
Learn to be alone and allow wisdom to surface in your being. Then you can to live in the world, but then even in the crowd you will be alone, unaffected, undistracted, unimpressed. You will be in the world, but not of the world and you will have the capacity to see what is right […]
There is a possibility of being blissful without being wise, but that blissfulness is not true blissfulness; it is simply what people call happiness. It comes and goes, it is momentary. And it always leaves you in deep frustration and despair. The cost is too much and not worth it. There is also a possibility […]
– Dignity of character comes through meditation. You are not practicing anything as far as your character is concerned, but your insight grows. You start seeing things as they are, and your whole life is transformed in this new light, in this new vision. You cannot behave in the old way. You cannot deceive anybody […]
Bliss has a luminosity of its own. Misery is dark, bliss is bright. The miserable person casts a shadow on others too. He comes like a black hole, he sucks people’s energy; his very presence is destructive. But the presence of a blissful person is creative, nourishing. It showers light on others. It is a […]
The way to bliss, to this oceanic bliss, is to become unidentified with the bodymind complex. One has to remember constantly, “I am not the body, I am not the mind. I am the watcher, the witness.” Slowly, slowly, it becomes so natural that you need not remember it; it is simply there as an […]
Man has become awkward for the simple reason that he has become self-conscious; self, consciousness is very destructive to grace. That’s why if you are talking to a friend you talk gracefully, but if you are talking to a great audience, if thousands of people are listening to you, you lose all grace. You become […]