Needs can be fulfilled, desires never. Needs are natural, desires are perverted.

Trust does not mean that everything will be all right. Trust means everything is already all right.

My whole teaching consists of two words, meditation and love.

Celibacy can only be spontaneous, there is no other type of celibacy. If it is not spontaneous, it is not celibacy. You can force it. you can control your sexuality, but that is not going to help. You will not be celibate, you will be only more and more sexual. Sex will spread all over your being. It will become part of your unconscious. It will move your dreams, it will become your motivation in dreams, it will become your fantasy. In fact, you will become more sexual than you ever were before. You will think more about it and you will have to repress it again and again.

A man of meditation functions differently. Whatever profession he chooses, it does not matter. He will bring to his profession some quality of sacredness. He may be making shoes, or he may be cleaning the roads, but he will bring to his work some quality, some grace, some beauty, which is not possible without samādhi.

If you remain always far, love will die. If you remain always near, love will die. Love can survive only in a continuous flowing relationship.

If you have difficulties making a decision, choose the lesser of the two evils.