– 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 […]
We know love that is momentary. One day it is there, another day it is gone. Its very momentariness shows that it is not real love; it is something else masquerading as love – maybe lust, a biological urge; a psychological need, the fear of being alone, an effort to remain occupied with the other, […]
Science can never be a shelter for man. It can give you more comfort, convenience, a better standard of living, but it cannot give you a better quality of life — that is impossible. That can happen only through religion because religion helps you to feel at home, it gives you something certain to live […]
Joy is Forever Joy is not happiness, because happiness is always mixed with unhappiness. It is never found in purity, it is always polluted. It always has a long shadow of misery behind it. Just as day is followed by night, happiness is followed by unhappiness. Then what is joy? Joy is a state of […]