Mind concentrates: it acts out of the past. Meditation acts in the present, out of the present.

Godliness is the fragrance of the man who has attained enlightenment.

You can come to know the truth only when you are in love. But love never argues. There is no argument in love, because there is no aggression.

This moment! - this here-now - is forgotten when you start thinking in terms of achieving something. When the achieving mind arises, you lose contact with the paradise you are in.

It is the other way round: food cannot make you spiritual, but if you are spiritual your food habits will change. Eating anything will not make much difference. You can be a vegetarian and cruel to the extreme, and violent; you can be a non-vegetarian and kind and loving. Food will not make much difference. In India there are communities who have lived totally with vegetarian food; many Brahmins have lived totally with vegetarian food. They are non-violent but they are not spiritual.

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.

You have to put aside your ideology. Howsoever beautiful it looks, howsoever systematic it looks, howsoever philosophical you have made and decorated it, you have to put it aside and see within. That's the whole method of meditation, awareness, watchfulness.