When becoming disappears, all the smoke of becoming disappears, there is the flame of being, and that very flame is celebration.

Nobody asked you about being born, nobody is going to ask you when the time comes for you to be taken away. Then why be worried? Birth happened to you; death will happen to you; who are you to come in between?

When you bring the light into your dark house, that is when you see the cobwebs and spiders

Withdraw your awareness from everywhere and just let it rest within yourself, and you have arrived home.

Experiment with this a little. During these days that you are here with me, don't nourish any desire for happiness, and then see how your heart becomes filled with happiness. Don't have any desire for peace, and see how the turmoil within you vanishes. Don't beg for contentment and see how contentment showers down on you. Please try this - only then will you understand.

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.

The authentic pagan has no need of religion because, whatever religion can provide, he already has it.