We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.

Lovers should not separate from each other after making love without admiring each other, without being conquered as well as conquering, so that no feeling of satiation or desolation arises nor the horrid feeling of misusing or having been misused.

An enlightened man had but one duty - to seek the way to himself, to reach inner certainty, to grope his way forward, no matter where it led.

To hold our tongues when everyone is gossiping, to smile without hostility at people and institutions, to compensate for the shortage of love in the world with more love in small, private matters; to be more faithful in our work, to show greater patience, to forgo the cheap revenge obtainable from mockery and criticism: all these are things we can do.

Om is the bow, the arrow is soul.

So you can't dance? Not at all? Not even one step? How can you say that you've taken any trouble to live when you won't even dance?

For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves.