In meditation, once you are gone in, you are gone in. Then, even when you resurrect you are a totally different person. The old personality is nowhere to be found. You have to start your life again from abc. You have to learn everything with fresh eyes, with a totally new heart. That's why meditation creates fear.

Fear comes from the mind, love comes from your heart; listen to the heart.

Watch, witness. Your body is not you; your mind is not you. You are just a pure witness.

Religion has only one answer and that answer is meditation. And meditation means how to empty yourself.

Only one thing is going to remain with you: that is your witnessing, that is your watchfulness. This watchfulness is meditation.

This whole society, up to now, has been very violent with the individual. It does not believe in the individual; it is against the individual. It tries in every possible way to destroy you for its own purposes. It needs clerks, it needs stationmasters, deputy-collectors, policemen, magistrates, it needs soldiers. It does not need human beings.

Only an acceptance of both the flowers and the thorns can bring you peace. Peace, after all, is the fruit of total acceptance.