True art means if it helps you to become silent, still, joyous; if it gives you a celebration, if it makes you dance—whether anybody participates with you or not is irrelevant. If it becomes a bridge between you and God, that is true art. If it becomes a meditation, that is true art. If you become absorbed in it, so utterly absorbed that the ego disappears, that is true art.

Death is the greatest illusion of all.

Man is born only as a potential. He can become a thorn for himself and for others, he can also become a flower for himself and for others.

A respectable person is invariably unrespectable within.

Don't look for God in the sky; look within your own body.

It is not that I love contradictions: life is contradictory. Existence itself is possible only through contradictions.

When I use the words 'inner journey', I simply mean that you have looked at one aspect of the journey in your life called 'outer', now try to look at another aspect of the journey called 'inner'. You have been running after money, now run after meditation. You have been running after power, now run after God. Both are running. Once you start running after meditation then one day I will tell you, 'Now drop meditation too. Now stop running.' And when you stop running then real meditation happens.