Man is not: a being, but a bridge. Animals live being and Buddha’s have being, but man is only a bridge. He has no being; he is a becoming. He goes on becoming, changing, moving from one point to another. He is a Journey, a pilgrimage. This has to be remembered: never be satisfied unless […]
Everyone belongs to God. There is no other way. We are born in God, we live in God, we die in God. Our energy is God’s energy: God is simply the name of the total energy of existence. But the total is not arithmetical, the total is mysterious. It is not mechanical, it is organic. […]
Everyone is God, everything is God. Existence and God are two words for the same phenomenon. So don’t think of God in terms of a person who created the world, who controls The world, who manages the whole affair. Don’t think of him As a supreme boss — there is nobody like that. God is […]
Everything is infinite because everything is divine. Everything is unbounded because everything participates in the nature of existence. Boundaries are created by our senses; they are not there at all. Everything is joined with everything else, but our senses create boundaries. It is as if you look out of a window and it gives a […]
Man is a seed, but just a seed — he is of great potential, but nothing is actual. The seed can die as a seed without ever becoming a tree, without ever coming to flowering. Man is a seed of light. But ordinarily man is not resplendent, man is not luminous, for the simple reason […]
From this very moment, remember that you are not separate from existence. And don’t only remember, experiment: be one with the tree you are sitting beside, be one with the river you are swimming in, be one with the person whose hand you are holding. Slowly, slowly, experiment being one with the faraway star you […]
We cannot be victorious on our own. If we try to be victorious on our own, we are bound to be defeated, we are doomed. Failure is absolutely certain, inevitable. It is like a small wave fighting against the whole ocean: it belongs to the ocean – how can it fight? It is like the […]
Existence speaks in everyone’s heart, but we are so occupied in our heads that we never listen to that still, small voice within. There is so much clamoring, so much unnecessary noise – we have made the head a marketplace. The heart goes on calling and we remain deaf to it. Existence is not far […]
Man is born as a quest. Man is not born as a complete being. A dog is born complete. A tree, a rock…. The whole of existence, except for man, has one similar thing: they are all complete. Only man is incomplete; hence man has an opening. Everything else is closed. A rose is a […]
Paradise is not somewhere else. Paradise is not geographical. It is not above the clouds in the heavens; it is within you. And it is not in some other time, after death. It is in you right now. You are made of it, so there is no need to seek and search anywhere else. All […]