But everybody is afraid of death; that too is contagious. Your parents are afraid of death, your neighbors are afraid of death. Small children start getting infected by this constant fear all around. Everybody is afraid of death. People don't even want to talk about death.

The people who crucified Jesus were not able to see his godliness at all; they could only see the mischief in him.

Love is a wine; you have to taste it, you have to drink it, you have to become drunk with it, only then do you know what it is.

Misery nourishes your ego - that's why you see so many miserable people in the world. The basic, central point is the ego.

Meditation is nothing but coming to terms with your inner emptiness: recognizing it, not escaping; living through it, not escaping; being through it, not escaping. Then suddenly the emptiness becomes the fullness of life.

If you are angry you will share anger, if you are greedy you will share greed, if you are full of lust you will share your lust. We can share only that which we have, we cannot share that which we don't have. This has to be the fundamental thing to be remembered; hence the first step is meditation and the second step is compassion.

NOW is the only reality. All else is either memory or imagination.