To remember that we are part of a vast continent is the only way to be transformed. We have not really to drop anything because the very idea of separation is false. It is just an idea, it is like somebody who is calculating and making the same mistake again and again: two plus two […]
If you are ready to dissolve into the whole, bliss is the outcome. If you resist dissolution, if you try to remain a separate entity… That’s what everybody is doing: trying to be an ego, trying to protect themselves, defend themselves. Everybody is fencing themselves off against the whole. Everybody is afraid of the whole […]
No tree is as foolish as man, no animal either is as foolish. Man is the only idiotic animal on the earth, but that idiocy also be transformed into a great blessing – because only man can understand what separation is and what union is. The trees, the birds, the animals, are one with existence […]
Our brains are nothing but bio computers. It has taken millions of years for nature to evolve the brain. In creating the computer, we have simply made a brain outside the body, a mechanical brain. Of course, computers will go on growing and growing, they will become bigger and bigger, and they will be capable […]
To be totally free, one needs to be totally aware because our bondage is rooted in our unconsciousness; it does not come from outside. Nobody can make you unfree. You can be destroyed, but your freedom cannot be taken away unless you give it away. In the ultimate analysis, it is always your desire to […]
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 […]