Existence does not listen to your desires, and does not follow your desires, however beautiful and however pious. Existence goes on in its own way.

A comfortable, convenient life is not a real life - the more comfortable, the less alive. The most comfortable life is in the grave.

Religion is consciousness-raising. It raises you higher than the problem, it gives you a bird's-eye view.

Philosophers are never happy here. Now is not their time, and here is not their space. They live there, they live somewhere else.

There is great difference between trust and belief. Trust is personal, Belief is social.

If you go on condemning, your condemnation shows that somewhere there is a wound, and you are feeling jealous - because without jealousy there can be no condemnation. You condemn people because somehow, somewhere, unconsciously you feel they are enjoying themselves and you have missed.

You cannot force meditation, you can only create the situation. And if the situation is created rightly, then meditation happens automatically.