One needs a house, one needs food, one needs money and one needs clothes; one should pay attention to all these things, but they should not become all and everything. Some space, some time should be given to the inner exploration. That’s what I call meditation: sitting with yourself, being with yourself, available to your […]
We are born with infinite wisdom, but we go on losing our wisdom in collecting knowledge. Knowledge is rubbish; it is mundane, it is trivia. We go on giving away the precious for the absolutely meaningless. Become ignorant again of so-called knowledge. Unburden yourself of knowledge, unlearn it and the moment all knowledge has been […]
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.
We are born with a great treasure, so vast, so great that it is inexhaustible. But we live in utter poverty because we never dig within our own being. We go on looking everywhere else. It is the strangest thing about man that he searches and seeks everywhere – he is ready to go to […]
One needs to be industrious; one needs to accept challenges which provoke one for the upward journey. It is hard, it is dangerous, but it brings out the best in you. It creates integrity, ultimately it creates a soul in you. George Gurdjieff used to say that not everybody is born with a soul. He […]
My teaching is not to love God, my teaching is to love. Whom you love is not so relevant: people, animals, birds, trees, music, poetry, painting… What you love — the object of love — is not so important, but that you love is important. And as love increases, slowly, slowly it brings a faith […]
– I don’t divide ordinary life from spiritual life. They are one, they are inseparably one. To separate them is to create a split humanity, a schizophrenic humanity. Life is a unity, an organic unity, indivisible. Nothing is higher and nothing is lower. There is no hierarchy, everything exists simultaneously on the same plane. So […]
Life is such a joy for those who are tender, soft, loving, compassionate, sensitive. Then life itself is proof: in thousands of ways it proves that God is. But to the hard, to the rocklike person, there is no proof for God. God cannot be proven for him because he has no sensitivity to feel. […]
The heart is always true. The heart is never untrue and the head is never true. The head lives in lies, it lives on lies; it exists in all kinds of falsehoods. The heart is authentic: it is sincere, it is simple, it is not cunning. It is tremendously intelligent, but not cunning. It simply […]
A divine voice is always there in the heart, always calling you. But you are not available; you are engaged in mundane affairs, in ordinary things. Your mind is full of unnecessary rubbish, busy without business. So you go on missing the still small voice within. Once the mind is silent, once thoughts disappear, once […]