Praise is the very foundation of prayer. One who can praise has a heart ready to jump into prayer. It is difficult to praise, it is easy to condemn. It is easy to condemn because through condemnation the ego feels nourished. Through condemnation you reduce people to being lower than you; you become higher, holier, […]
My understanding is that the only way to praise God is through being blissful. It need not to be verbal – in fact, it can’t be verbal. Words are so futile so empty, words can’t contain it. One has to praise God existentially. Every fiber of your being has to pulsate with joy, every cell […]
Real praise comes out of understanding how much existence has given you. It comes out of the experience of the beauty that you are surrounded by: the stars, the sun, the moon, the flowers, the rainbows, the clouds, the people. Your very own being, this whole miracle, this whole mysterious universe, has been given to […]
Life has many beautiful things, but nothing can be compared to the beauty of meditation. There are many beautiful flowers and beautiful stars and sunrises and sunsets and beautiful people, but the flower of meditation, the star of meditation, the sunrise of meditation, is incomparable. It leads you into the world of godliness, it takes […]
Meditation means a state of thoughtless awareness. In a way, it is negative; it rejects thoughts and creates a silent state inside you. That silence is beautiful, but it is lacking something. It is lacking music, there is no poetry in it, there is no dance in it. It is a kind of dead silence; […]
Love is a flower and the most beautiful of all. It is invisible because it grows in the heart, but its fragrance is felt even from the outside. It opens in the heart, but its fragrance goes on spreading; it reaches other people too. It has so much fragrance that it can fill the whole […]
Prayer has nothing to do with religion; it is basically the approach of the artist. Prayer is an aesthetic phenomenon, not a religious phenomenon. But if you start feeling grateful and thankful toward existence, slowly, slowly you are surprised that a presence starts surrounding you which you had never felt before. It is only a […]
There have been two kinds of religion in the world: the religions of meditation and the religions of prayer. And they have existed like enemies; they have divided the whole of humanity. For example, Buddhism is a religion of meditation, Christianity is a religion of prayer, and up to now there has been no bridge […]
Prayer is all over space. The stars are prayerful, the trees are prayerful the oceans are prayerful. Except for man, the whole of existence is always in a state of prayer; only man needs to move toward it consciously. And it is for a certain reason: man is the only conscious animal, hence he has […]
Prayer has not to be just verbal. A verbal prayer is a pseudo phenomenon; it pretends to be prayer, but it is plastic. It is not a real flower. The real prayer has nothing to do with language at all because God understands no language. There are three thousand languages on earth and scientists say […]