Everything is infinite because everything is divine. Everything is unbounded because everything participates in the nature of existence. Boundaries are created by our senses; they are not there at all. Everything is joined with everything else, but our senses create boundaries. It is as if you look out of a window and it gives a […]
Man is a seed, but just a seed — he is of great potential, but nothing is actual. The seed can die as a seed without ever becoming a tree, without ever coming to flowering. Man is a seed of light. But ordinarily man is not resplendent, man is not luminous, for the simple reason […]
From this very moment, remember that you are not separate from existence. And don’t only remember, experiment: be one with the tree you are sitting beside, be one with the river you are swimming in, be one with the person whose hand you are holding. Slowly, slowly, experiment being one with the faraway star you […]
We cannot be victorious on our own. If we try to be victorious on our own, we are bound to be defeated, we are doomed. Failure is absolutely certain, inevitable. It is like a small wave fighting against the whole ocean: it belongs to the ocean – how can it fight? It is like the […]
Existence speaks in everyone’s heart, but we are so occupied in our heads that we never listen to that still, small voice within. There is so much clamoring, so much unnecessary noise – we have made the head a marketplace. The heart goes on calling and we remain deaf to it. Existence is not far […]
Man is born as a quest. Man is not born as a complete being. A dog is born complete. A tree, a rock…. The whole of existence, except for man, has one similar thing: they are all complete. Only man is incomplete; hence man has an opening. Everything else is closed. A rose is a […]
Paradise is not somewhere else. Paradise is not geographical. It is not above the clouds in the heavens; it is within you. And it is not in some other time, after death. It is in you right now. You are made of it, so there is no need to seek and search anywhere else. All […]
Humbleness does not mean less ego, it simply means no ego. And the moment ego is totally put aside, discarded, love starts blossoming as if the spring has suddenly come to you. And there is not only one flower, but thousands of flowers in your being. Great is the fragrance. It is because of this […]
Unless we are a blessing to existence, we can’t be blessed. We have to deserve it, we have to be worthy of it, and the only way to deserve it is to lose yourself in love with existence. Religion is nothing but a love affair with existence. It is not ritual; it has nothing to […]
Whenever you have time, at any moment, relax and go in. Forget the whole world for a moment, as if it does not exist. Thinking that the world consists only of illusions is one of the ancient strategies, thinking that it is made of the same stuff as dreams are made of. It is not […]