– 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 […]
The body lives through breathing; once the breathing stops, the body dies. The soul exists through loving, but many people don’t have a soul because they never start loving. They just assume that they have a soul, but they don’t. Potentially of course they do, and if they start loving, it will become a reality. […]
Millions of people live at the lowest center sex. Hence the work of a sannyasin begins at the sex center because the energy is there. I don’t condemn sex because it is energy. We just have to move it upward. And it can be moved upward only if you have a deep respect for it, […]
Everybody has the seed to become a beautiful flower of love, a lotus. But very few people have been able to become it, for the simple reason that very few people are alert; they can’t discriminate what is what. Watch how many things are pretending to be love. If they are love, they cannot create […]