The journey begins in love and ends in light, or in enlightenment. And the bridge is prayer. The whole pilgrimage from ignorance to wisdom is nothing but a pilgrimage of prayer. Prayer means: “I am so small that nothing is possible through me, unless the whole helps me.” Prayer is a surrender of the ego […]
Prayer has to be something absolutely individual. It has to be spontaneous, it has not to be learned. A learned prayer is a false prayer. Then you are repeating like a parrot. It is meaningless, senseless, empty words. But when a prayer arises in your heart, when it has something of you in it, then […]
Breathe prayer, live prayer, love this beautiful existence. It is through love you will become aware of the immense presence of godliness everywhere. And I repeat again: not of God, but of godliness. Related posts: No related posts.
People pray out of misery. They pray because they are miserable and they think they will be able to get out of it through prayer. At the most, that kind of prayer can help to console them, but it cannot help them to get out of misery. They will become settled and adjusted to their […]
Prayer has nothing to do with what is known all around the world as prayer. Real prayer is not a ritual. Real prayer has nothing to do with the church or the temple or the mosque: real prayer is neither Christian nor Hindu nor Mohammedan. Real prayer has nothing to do with words, it is […]
Life is a gift from existence. We have not earned it; in fact, we don’t even deserve it. But we are such ungrateful creatures that not even a simple thank you arises in us. We are not grateful that we are alive; we are not grateful that we have been given this opportunity to grow, […]
Prayer has been very misunderstood in the past. It has become part of the belief in God; hence those who don’t believe in God can’t pray. That has deprived millions of people of prayer. Prayer has to be freed from a belief in God. In fact, prayer comes first, God comes later on. God is […]
Religion is dead without laughter. It becomes alive only when you can have a total laugh, a passionate, intense laugh, so that it dances in all your cells, it vibrates in your whole being. Then it becomes something bigger than you, so that you are just a small thing in it; it surrounds you like […]
Love, bliss, meditation, truth, all need great strength. 0ne has to be together. Ordinarily people are just fragments. There are thousands of pieces, but there is no integrity. To be weak means to be divided, to be undivided is strength. And whenever you are undivided, you literally become an indivisible. It brings strength, and strength […]
The past is a barrier. Unless one is courageous enough to die to the past, one cannot be rewarded by true life. And this death has to happen each moment because each moment we are creating the past. It is not that once you have died to the past, the whole thing is finished. After […]