The individual is a passage, a bridge from the collective to the universal. It frees you first from the collective, and once you are free from the collective, there is no need for you to be an individual. You can dissolve into the whole. That is the miracle of individuality: first it frees you from […]
Just as there is a sun on the outside, there is a sun inside too. The outside sun rises and sets, but the inside sun is always there. It never rises, it never sets — it is eternal. Unless we know the inner light and the source of it, we live in darkness. Make every […]
There are people who go on collecting old scriptures: the older the scriptures are the better they are thought to be. There are people who collect money, and all kinds of stupidities go on… These people are really searching for their own ancientmost treasure but searching in the wrong direction. Going to Everest, man is […]
– People live small lives, very ordinary, of no significance and meaning, of no joy, of surprise. They simply go on moving in a repetitive circle, doing the same thing again and again every day from birth to death. That is not the right way to live. That is a slow way of committing suicide. […]
Life is life only when love is burning bright inside you: when the flame of love is so bright that it starts radiating around you, that it starts reaching others, that people can feel it; that your love becomes almost so tangible that people can touch it. Then it is not only a blessing to […]
Love makes everybody a great poet, and if love cannot make you a poet then nothing can. Love opens a totally different dimension in your being. Without love you remain confined to the world of logic. Once love starts happening in your life, logic starts to disappear; a transcendence of logic happens. That’s why the […]
Life can be a calculation. Then it is prose, then it is mundane, then it is arithmetic, then it is logic. But everything is dry – no flowers, no dance, no song. One does not live but only drag. But life can also be lived as poetry, as love, as music, as celebration. And it […]
Ordinarily, people are not happy when they are alone. They feel very empty, they feel something is missing. They can’t live alone for long periods; even an hour looks like many hours. They escape into a relationship. The relationship is just an escape from oneself. It is not a true relationship, it is negative: a […]
It is good that in the West, the TV is now being called the idiot box; in fact only idiots sit before it. The box is not as much of an idiot as the people who sit before it. And they go on sitting… Now the average American sits before the idiot box five to […]
The love I am talking about has nothing to do with our so-called relationships. Our relationships are arbitrary. The love that is eternal relates, but it never creates relationships. It relates: it relates to trees, to the sun, to the moon, to the wind, to people, to animals, to the earth, to rocks. It is […]