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.

In relationship, be blissful, in aloneness be aware and they will help each other, like two wings of a bird.

Meditation is just a courage to be silent and alone. Slowly slowly, you start feeling a new quality to yourself, a new aliveness, a new beauty, a new intelligence—which is not borrowed from anybody, which is growing within you. It has roots in your existence.

If you are courageous, listen to the heart. If you are a coward, listen to the head.

You become that which you think you are. Or, it is not that you become it, but that the idea gets very deeply rooted and that's what all conditioning is.

If you want to possess things—money; if you want to possess yourself—meditation. And if you possess yourself, money loses all meaning.

Do not cling to anything, to any idea; because clinging is the bondage, even to the idea of enlightenment.