Everybody is trying to be perfect. And the moment somebody starts trying to be perfect, he starts expecting everybody else to be perfect. He starts condemning people, he starts humiliating people.

Marriage is very secure. It is safe. There is no growth in it. One is simply stuck. Marriage is a sexual arrangement; intimacy is a search for love. Marriage is a sort of prostitution, a permanent sort. One has got married to a woman or to a man - it is a permanent prostitution. The arrangement is economical, not psychological, not of the heart.

One day you will disappear on a funeral pyre - just into nothingness, as smoke.

Religion exists not because of God or for God; it is because of marriage. Marriage creates so much misery that one has to meditate; meditation is a byproduct. Without marriage, who will bother to meditate? For what? You will be already blissful!

Only authentic human beings can create a society which will be joyous, ecstatic, and in the real sense, human.

Everything can become a meditation if you live it totally and intensely. And then your life becomes whole.

Meditation has to become your heartbeat; even when you are asleep the meditation continues like an undercurrent