All of our miseries are nothing but attachment. Our whole ignorance and darkness is a strange combination of a thousand and one attachments. And we are attached to things which will be taken away by the time of death, or even perhaps before. You may be very much attached to money but you can go bankrupt tomorrow. You may be very much attached to your power and position, your presidency, your prime ministership, but they are like soap bubbles. Today they are here, tomorrow not even a trace will be left.

The beauty is in finding, not in what you find ; that is just an excuse.

You can call it godliness - it IS godliness. It is the highest, the greatest flowering of being. But it is not a God somewhere outside you. You cannot pray to it. You can be it, but you cannot pray to it, because it is not separate.

The idea of vegetarianism is of immense value; it is based on great reverence for life.

Ordinary society is like a paperweight on you: it won't allow you to fly.

I am here to destroy your personality, to give birth to your individuality.

God is your very being. So the first thing is, don't think about enlightenment as a goal.