Great Throughts Treasury

"Include and grow. Include and expand."

"In two words, there is always an interval, however small, imperceptible. Otherwise, the words could not be two, but one would become. A word or two notes could not be two if there is a gap between them. There is always a silence, but you have to be really aware and careful to hear it."

"Intelligence comes from meditation, intelligence comes from rebellion, intelligence does not come from memory"

"Intelligence is dangerous. Intelligence means you will start thinking on your own; you will start looking around on your own. You will not believe in the scriptures; you will believe only in your own experience."

"In the space of no-mind, truth descends like light."

"It is a great mystery. Any effort to find an explanation is wrong - just to love, to live with him and dance with him."

"It is a strange thing, that every child is born with a closed hand , and everybody dies with an open hand!"

"It is beautiful to be alone, it is also beautiful to be in love, to be with people. And they are complementary, not contradictory."

"It is not decided by votes what is true; otherwise we could never come to any truth, ever. People will vote for what is comfortable ? and lies are very comfortable because you don't have to do anything about them, you just have to believe. Truth needs great effort, discovery, risk, and it needs you to walk alone on a path that nobody has traveled before."

"It was good of Friedrich Nietzsche to declare God dead ? I declare that he has never been born. It is a created fiction, an invention, not a discovery. Do you understand the difference between invention and discovery? A discovery is about truth, an invention is manufactured by you. It is man-manufactured fiction."

"It is the deep urge to be one with the whole, the deep urge to dissolve I and thou into one unity. Love is that because we are separated from our own source, out of that separation the desire arises to fall back into the whole, to become one with it."

"It's not a question of learning much. On the contrary. It's a question of UNLEARNING much.'"

"Just a few days ago a man came to see me and he said, "I am a humble man. I am just like the dust on your feet. I have been trying for almost twenty years to achieve higher consciousness, but I have been a failure. Why can't I attain?" And on and on he went. Every sentence started with I. If the grammar allowed, every sentence would have ended with I. And if everything was allowed, every sentence would have consisted only of I's. "I etcetera, I etcetera, I etcetera," it went on and on. You are filled too much. There is no room, no space for God to enter in you. You are too crowded. A thousand I's milling inside ? they don't leave any space for anything to enter in you."

"Just a few days ago a man came to see me and he said, I am a humble man. I am just like the dust on your feet. I have been trying for almost twenty years to achieve higher consciousness, but I have been a failure. Why can't I attain? And on and on he went. Every sentence started with I. If the grammar allowed, every sentence would have ended with I. And if everything was allowed, every sentence would have consisted only of I's. I etcetera, I etcetera, I etcetera, it went on and on. You are filled too much. There is no room, no space for God to enter in you. You are too crowded. A thousand I's milling inside ? they don't leave any space for anything to enter in you."

"Just before twenty-first March, 1953, seven days before, I stopped working on myself. A moment comes when you see the whole futility of effort. You have done all that you can do and nothing is happening. You have done all that is humanly possible. Then what else can you do? In sheer helplessness one drops all search. And the day the search stopped, the day I was not seeking for something, the day I was not expecting something to happen, it started happening. A new energy arose ? out of nowhere. It was not coming from any source. It was coming from nowhere and everywhere. It was in the trees and in the rocks and the sky and the sun and the air ? it was everywhere. And I was seeking so hard, and I was thinking it is very far away. And it was so near and so close."

"Just being alive is such a gift, but nobody ever told you to be thankful to existence. On the contrary, everyone was grumpy, complaining. Naturally, if everything surrounding your life from the very beginning goes on pointing out to you that you are not what you should be, goes on giving you great ideals that you have to follow and you have to become, your isness is never praised. What is praised is your future - if you can become someone respectable, powerful, rich, intellectual, in some way famous, not just a nobody."

"Just the other day I came across a statement: A perfectionist is a person who takes great pains, and gives even greater pains to others. And the outcome is just a miserable world!"

"Knowledge always liberates."

"Last night I dreamed. I dreamed that God dialogue. Allah asked: So you're telling me to say? said yes, if you have the time. Eternity God smiled and then said, as I have time. The heart wants to say. ..! asked what people would wonder, would you? Lord answered: these things: 0They are bored with their children to enlarge their accelerations are large, then the children will love! Them for the lose their health gaining wealth, gain of wealth, and then spend it on the way to achieving their health! They are aching future, they forget the present moment, and thus they live in neither the present nor future! where they live as if they will never die, and die as though they had never been born! Then warm hands, God took my hand and we both were silent moments. Asked people wife of Allah love We further noted: What God said these things: You cannot have someone Vadaryd your friends , you can just see his beloved. Is not a good situation compared to others in your situation you can forgive the unforgivable learned. Might be in for a few seconds, the hearts of those who love you can create a deep wound, but to heal the wounds will take years. Has not someone who has a lot of money, but is one who needs the least. Are always the ones you like, but do not know how to express their love! Maybe two people can look at the same thing, but they see things differently. Forgiving each other is not enough, you must also forgive themselves. Said, 'Thank you God' ! There something you would like to remember it forever? Lord smiled again and said, I know who I am, and always will be."

"Let someone dance and let him bring all his energy to it, and soon he will find there is someone inside him who is not dancing , who is utterly steady and still. That is his axle, his center. That which is dancing is his circumference, his body and he himself is the center."

"Let's not be afraid to be left alone if it's for the sake of the truth. Let's be afraid to be demagogues, coveting the people's sham flattery. If we don't tell them the truth, we commit the worst sin: betraying the truth and betraying the people. Christ would rather be left alone, but able to say before the world figured in Pilate: Everyone who hears my voice belongs to the truth."

"Let my blood be a seed of freedom."

"Laughter relaxes. And relaxation is spiritual."

"Life begins where fear ends."

"Let ur love be ur state of being, NOT that u fall in love , but just that u r loving .. it is simply ur nature ...You can be in state of love only if u drop the old mind pattern of relationships ,,,, LOVE IS NOT A RELATIONSHIP."

"Let us not tire of preaching love: it is the force that will overcome the world."

"Let us not forget: we are a pilgrim church, subject to misunderstanding, to persecution, but a church that walks serene, because it bears the force of love."

"Life is a mystery, but man wants to reduce it to a problem!"

"Liberation cannot be desired because desire is the bondage. When you are desireless, you are liberated."

"Life is not a tragedy, it is a comedy. To be alive means to have a sense of humor."

"Live in the world but do not allow the world to live in you."

"Look for the mysterious in life. Wherever you look ? in the white clouds, in the stars in the night, in the flowers, in a flowing river ? wherever you look, look for the mystery. And whenever you find that a mystery is there, meditate on it. Meditation means: dissolve yourself before that mystery, annihilate yourself before that mystery, disperse yourself before that mystery. Be no more, and let the mystery be so total that you are absorbed in it. And suddenly a new door opens, a new perception is achieved."

"Look at the trees, look at the birds, look at the clouds, look at the stars... and if you have eyes you will be able to see that the whole existence is joyful. Everything is simply happy. Trees are happy for no reason; they are not going to become prime ministers or presidents and they are not going to become rich and they will never have any bank balance. Look at the flowers - for no reason. It is simply unbelievable how happy flowers are."

"Light is shallow; darkness is infinitely deep. Light is always bounded, it has boundaries. Darkness has no boundaries, it is unbounded. Light comes and goes; darkness always is. When there is light you cannot see it. When light is not there you can see it. But it is always there; you cannot cause it. Light has a cause. You burn the fire, you put on wood. When the wood is finished the light will be gone. It is caused, hence it is an effect. But darkness is not caused by anything, it is not an effect. It is uncaused eternity."

"Listen to the existence and become part of it."

"Listen to your being. It is continuously giving you hints; it is a still, small voice. It does not shout at you, that is true. And if you are a little silent you will start feeling your way. Be the person you are. Never try to be another, and you will become mature. Maturity is accepting the responsibility of being oneself, whatsoever the cost. Risking all to be oneself, that's what maturity is all about."

"Logic ridicules love, and love smiles knowingly at the whole foolishness of logic."

"Love is like cigarettes. It gives you a little pleasure while you're at it, but leaves you with a bad taste in your mouth and a pain in your chest."

"Love deeply, love without jealousy, love blissfully and help each other to be more meditative. Because what else can we do and what can we share? Man is born naked without anything. Love should be the beginning of sharing something. Your love becomes a spiritual phenomenon."

"Love and respect yourself and never compromise for anything. And then you will be surprised how much growth starts happening of its own accord.. as if rocks have been removed and the river has started flowing."

"Love is not a relationship, love is a state of being; it has nothing to do with anybody else. One is not in love, one is love. And of course when one is love, one is in love ? but that is an outcome, a by-product, that is not the source. The source is that one is love."

"Love is the opposite of lust: respecting the other as an end unto himself or herself. When you love someone as an end unto himself, then there is no feeling of hurt; you become enriched through it. Love makes everybody rich."

"Love never hurts anybody. And if you feel you have been hurt by love, it is something else in you, not your loving quality that feels hurt."

"Lovers feel a certain burning in their hearts. A deep longing and desire to meet with the beloved creates that burning. To love God is bound to create a very great fire in you. You will be on fire because you have chosen as your love object something impossible. You will have to weep and cry, and you will have to pray, and you will have to fast, and your mind has to continuously repeat and remember the beloved."

"Love is the goal, life is the journey."

"Love is the true God?not the God of theologians, but the God of Buddha, Jesus, Mohammed, the God of the Sufis."

"Love, to be really love, has to be being-love, gift-love. Being-love means a state of love. When you have arrived home, when you have known who you are, then a love arises in your being. Then the fragrance spreads and you can give it to others."

"Lovers never surrender to each other, lovers simply surrender to love."

"Man has nothing else to do but surrender ? in deep trust, in deep love. Don?t be a doer, just surrender. Let there be a let-go."

"Man, naturally, should be a vegetarian because the whole body is made for vegetarian food. Even scientists concede to the fact that the whole structure of the human body shows that man should not be a non-vegetarian. Man comes from the monkeys and monkeys are vegetarians ? absolute vegetarians. If Darwin is correct, then man should be a vegetarian. Now, there are ways to judge whether a certain species of animal is vegetarian or non-vegetarian: it depends on the length of the intestine. Non-vegetarian animals have a very small intestine. Tigers and lions have a very small intestine because meat is already a digested food. It does not need a long intestine to digest it. The work of digestion has been done by the animal and now you are eating the animal?s meat. It is already digested; a long intestine is not needed. Man has one of the longest intestines ? that means man is a vegetarian. A long digestion is needed and there will be much excreta which has to be thrown out."