"The heart knows no comparison, only the mind does."

"Sadness has a beauty of its own."

"You go on trying and trying, and you make many decisions and you take many vows,but nothing happens -- you remain the same. Not that you have not tried,not that you have not tried enough, you have tried and tried and tried. And you fail because it is not a question of effort. More effort won't help. It is a question of being alert, not of effort."

"Don't live the same year 75 times and call it a life."

"Laugh more. The world needs more joy."

"Love is wild; its whole beauty is in its wildness. It comes like a breeze with great fragrance, fills your heart, and suddenly where there was a desert there is a garden full of flowers."

"There is a very delicate line between pornography and beauty. A naked woman is not necessarily pornographic; a naked man is not necessarily pornographic. A beautiful man, a beautiful woman, naked, can be examples of beauty, of health, of proportion. They are the most glorious products of nature. If a deer can be naked and beautiful-and nobody thinks the deer is pornographic-then why should it be that a naked man or woman cannot be just seen as beautiful?"

"Be fearless in expressing your truth."

"Take the risk of being yourself."

"Happiness happens when you stop looking for it."

"Your mind is a garden; plant positivity."

"Freedom is the ultimate value in life. Nothing is higher than that."

"When the ego is not, you are for the first time encountering your being. That being is void. Then you can surrender; then you have surrendered."

"Tao simply means the ultimate principle that binds the whole existence together. Existence is not a chaos; that much is certain. It is a cosmos. There is immense order in it, intrinsic order in it, and the name of that order is Tao."

"PERFECT VIRTUE PRODUCES NOTHING, because it needs nothing. Production comes out of desire, production comes because you are imperfect. You create something as a substitute because you feel unfulfilled. When you are absolutely fulfilled, why should you create, how can you create? Then you yourself have become the glory of creation, then the inner being itself is so perfect, nothing is needed.PERFECT VIRTUE PRODUCES NOTHING. If the world is virtuous, all utilitarian goals will be lost. If the world is really virtuous there will be play and no production. Then the whole thing will just become a game. You enjoy it, but you don't need it. A perfect sage is absolutely useless."

"Be loving towards yourself, then you will be able to love others too."

"You exist in time, but you belong to eternity."

"If you can dance with your total being, you have achieved prayer."

"A single moment of love is equal to eternity."

"Silence is the most profound answer."

"Creativity is the greatest form of rebellion."

"Be - don't try to become."

"You will find peace not by rearranging the external world but by accepting yourself."

"Only those who are ready to become nobodies are able to love."

"Respect life,revere life.there is nothing more holy than life,nothing more divine than life."

"To live without purpose is to drift, but to live with purpose is to sail straight to your destination."

"When you are no longer seeking, you have arrived."

"Meditation means being aware of what you are doing."

"Drinking tea is as sacred as doing yoga. Sleeping silently, relaxed, is as sacred as prayer. Looking at a tree, talking to a friend, walking early in the morning, working in the factory or in the office, is as holy as anything else. This is the understanding that is needed for Tao to happen."

"Laughter is a bridge between the human and the divine."

"We always live in the tommorow,which never comes and which cannot come; it is impossible. That which comes always is today, and we go on sacrificing today for tommorow,which is nowhere. The mind goes on thinking of the past,which you have destroyed,which you have sacrificed for something that has not come. And then it goes on postponing for further tommorows."

"The first step in awareness is to be watchful of your body. Slowly,slowly one becomes alert about each gesture,each movement. And as you become aware, a miracle starts happening: many things that you used to do before simply disappear. Your body becomes more relaxed,your body becomes more attuned, a deep peace starts prevailing even in your body, a subtle music pulsates in your body."

"Man is a question mark . . . and it is a blessing-celebrate it. It is a blessing because only man is a question mark; no dog is, no tree is. The rose bush is beautiful but not as beautiful as man, and the moon is beautiful but not as beautiful as man-because they are unconscious. Only man is consciously on a quest. And how can you be on a quest if you don't have a question mark in your being?"

"Experience life in all possible ways - good-bad, bitter-sweet, dark-light, summer-winter."

"Don't imitate. Be original."

"Sometimes it happens that you become one, in some rare moment. Watch the ocean, the tremendous wildness of it--and suddenly you forget your split, your schizophrenia; you relax. Or, moving in the Himalayas, seeing the virgin snow on the Himalayan peaks, suddenly a coolness surrounds you and you need not be false because there is no other human being to be false to. You fall together."

"Challenge everything for the Truth. Only those who challenge everything for the Truth are the blessed ones."

"No ideology can help to create a new worldor a new mind or a new human being --because ideological orientation itselfis the root cause of all the conflicts and all the miseries.Thought creates boundaries, thought creates divisions and thought creates prejudices; thought itself cannot bridge them. That's why all ideologies fail.Now man must learn to live without ideologiesreligious, political or otherwise. When the mind is not tethered to any ideology, it is free to move to new understandings. And in that freedom flowers all that is good and all that is beautiful."

"Live as intensely as possible, burn your candle of life from both ends."

"If you understand yourself, you have understood the whole existence."

"I would like Epicurus and Buddha to become one."

"People think that those who commit suicide are against life-they are not. They are too lusty for life, they have great lust for life; and because life is not fulfilling their lust, in anger, in despair, they destroy themselves."

"A wise man lives by his own light."

"Your love must be like the sun; it should shine on everyone unconditionally."

"I never use the word renunciation at all. I say: "Rejoice in life,in love,in meditation,in the beauties of the world, in the ecstasy of existence--rejoice in everything!" Transform the mundane into the sacred. Transform this shore ino the other shore, transform the earth into paradise.And then indirectly a certain renunciation starts happening. But that happens,you don't do it. It is not a doing, it is a happening."

"Don't be a slave to expectations - yours or others'."

"You can only be happy if you can be sad too."

"Breathing in, let golden light come into you through your head, because it is there that the Golden Flower is waiting. That golden light will help. It will cleanse your whole body and will make it absolutely full of creativity. This is male energy. Then when you exhale, let darkness, the darkest you can conceive, like a dark night, river-like, come from your toes upwards-this is feminine energy: it will soothe you, it will make you receptive, it will calm you, it will give you rest-and let it go out of the head. Then inhale again, and golden light enters in."

"When you love, love as totally as possible."

"You feel good, you feel bad, and these feelings are bubbling from your own unconsciousness, from your own past. Nobody is responsible except you."