If one can sing a little, if one can share one’s joy a little, if one can express one’s being a little, that’s enough; in fact more than enough. We are very miserly, we don’t share. This is the greatest calamity that can happen to any man, and it has happened to the whole of […]
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Beauty is natural, ugliness is unnatural. Beauty is your self – nature and ugliness is something foreign. That’s why nobody wants to be ugly. But because of unconsciousness, everybody has to be ugly. Everybody wants to be beautiful, but not knowing how to be beautiful, people go on painting their faces, trimming their hair, trying […]
The universe is a great harmony; everything fits with everything else. It is a tremendous miracle, so vast, immeasurable, infinite, yet everything fits with everything else – absolutely. Except for man. Man is the only black sheep in existence. And the reason man does not fit is that man has been given a great gift: […]
The universe is a great harmony; everything fits with everything else. It is a tremendous miracle, so vast, immeasurable, infinite, yet everything fits with everything else – absolutely. Except for man. Man is the only black sheep in existence. And the reason man does not fit is that man has been given a great gift: […]
Existence cares for everybody. Without existence loving us, we cannot exist even for a single moment. It goes on pouring life into us. We are immensely esteemed by existence, although we go on taking it for granted – that’s where our stupidity lies. If we take it for granted there is no gratitude. We think […]
Worship nature. To go into a church is to go into something man-made. Go into the forest, go to the river, go to the ocean. Then you are going to something God-made, and God is closer when you are close to his creation. To worship his creation is the only way to worship him. He […]
From this moment, start looking at everything as a blessing. And when I say everything, I mean everything. Even when you sometimes feel pain it is a blessing. You may not under-stand, but it is a blessing. One day you will understand and you will see that it was a blessing, that it was needed, […]
People take life for granted, hence there is no gratitude in them. And without gratitude there is no growth, without gratitude there is no religion, without gratitude there is no prayer. Religion begins in gratitude and ends in gratitude. It is a journey from gratitude to gratitude. In the beginning it is a seed, in […]
Life is a gift. But we are so unaware of it that we never thank existence, we don’t feel any gratitude. So much is given yet we remain complaining. We go on asking for more and more. And the misery of the mind is that the more you give, the more it asks for. It […]
Praise the beauty that surrounds us all, but of which we are unaware. Praise the sunrise, the sunset, the stars, the clouds, the trees, the people, because they are all manifestations of existence. Become a song of praise. Look with the eyes of praise. Drop being critical; being critical is a sure way of missing […]