The ego is an island in the ocean of Hell. You want to get rid of the Hell but you don't want to get rid of that island. Then there is trouble.

Just think: you cannot find a single misery for which you are not responsible. It may be jealousy, it may be anger, it may be greed - but something in you must be the reason that is creating the misery.

Don't move the way fear makes you move. Move the way love makes you move. Move the way joy makes you move.

People have a very limited idea of what being creative is - playing the guitar or the flute or writing poetry - so people go on writing rubbish in the name of poetry. You have to find out what you can do and what you cannot do. Everybody cannot do everything. You have to search and find your destiny. You have to grope in the dark, I know. It is not very clear-cut what your destiny is, but that's how life is. And it is good that one has to search for it - in the very search, something grows.

Be like an alone peak high in the sky. Why should you hanker to belong? You are not a thing! Things belong!

Love is the lotus, lust is the mud the lotus arises out of.

It cannot be called freedom, a freedom which can choose only the right and not the wrong; then that is not freedom.