I call a man a sannyasin who breaks out of these institutions and lives spontaneously. To be a sannyasin is the most courageous act possible. To be a sannyasin means to live without the mind, and the moment you live without mind you live without society. The mind has created society, and society has created the mind; they are interdependent. To be a sannyasin means to renounce all that is false but not to renounce the world, to renounce all that is unauthentic, to renounce all the answers, to be responsive, spontaneously responsive, and not to think about the reasons, but to be real.

Whatever you feel, you become. It is your responsibility.

Love can never possess. Love is giving freedom to the other. Love is an unconditional gift, it is not a bargain.

Remember: no attachment should grow, no clinging should grow. They are all against your independence, your freedom, your individuality.

Marriage is a way to avoid intimacy. It is a trick to create a formal relationship. Intimacy is informal. If a marriage arises out of intimacy it is beautiful but if you are hoping that intimacy will arise out of marriage, you are hoping in vain. Of course, I know that many people, millions of people, have settled for marriage rather than for intimacy - because intimacy is growth and it is painful.

You can succeed only with God, never against him. You can succeed only with the whole, never against it.

Don't swim against the current. Stay in the river, become the river; and the river is already going to the sea. This is the great teaching.