As you go higher in love, your life becomes more and more significant. More songs start happening in your heart; more ecstasies are born. In the ultimate sense of love, when it is godly, you are just a lotus flower releasing its fragrance, its ecstasy. Then there is no death, no time, no mind; then […]
Become a lover; not of anybody in particular, just become a lover in general. Let love become your quality, not just a relationship with somebody: whenever love becomes a relationship, it includes one, but excludes the whole universe. Choosing one, and excluding the whole universe, is a very dangerous bargain when the whole universe belongs […]
Unless you love the world, you cannot be creative. If you don’t love the beauty of the trees, why would you paint the trees? If you don’t love the song of the birds, why would you sing? If you don’t love the music of the wind passing through the pine trees, why should you play […]
– Very few people in the world are loving, that’s why there is so much misery. Everybody wants to be loving, everybody wants to be loved, but nobody learns the art of loving. It is a great art. You are born only with the potential, but the potential has to be transformed into the actual. […]
Love cannot be made a duty; the moment you make it a duty it becomes artificial, superficial. Then it is not even skin deep. The father says, “Love me because I am your father.” They are giving reasons why the child should love them, as if love needs any reason. They are not creating a […]
For centuries, marriage remained intact because man had completely killed the woman’s ego. Not that it was killed, it just went underground; it worked in an underground way. The woman became very subtle in her egoistic demands, hence the nagging and all kind of female strategies. She had to invent them because the man would […]
– Love means that you have to learn to respect the other as an end unto himself. The other is not a means. That is the only immoral act in the world. In fact, the whole of immorality can be defined through this simple thing: if you are using the other as a means, you […]
Love needs the greatest courage in life, for the simple reason that the basic requirement for moving into the world of love is dissolving your ego – and that is the hardest thing to do. We cling to the ego like anything. We are ready to die for it, but we are not ready to […]
For centuries, people have escaped from love to the monasteries, to the mountains, to the deserts, just to avoid all the opportunities where love can grow. They have lived in solitariness in caves, afraid of love. And there is a point to it: love creates much turmoil. Life without love has a certain calmness about […]
Love and prayer are two experiences of the same energy. Love is earthly, prayer is more unearthly, but the experience is the same. Love has a limitation to it; it is person to person. Prayer is unlimited, it is from a person to impersonal existence. And it is from the person to impersonal existence only […]