Meditation is a death - death of all that you are now. Of course there will be a resurrection, but that will be a totally new, fresh original being which you are not even aware is hidden in you.

Life cannot be possessed. You cannot have it in your fist. If you want to have it, you have to keep your hands open.

Take life easily, lovingly, playfully, non-seriously. Seriousness is a disease, the greatest disease of the soul and playfulness the greatest health.

To live in relationship and yet remain independent, that is what courage is.

Parents create guilt. That is the greatest sin against humanity. To create guilt in a child is criminal because once the guilt is created, the child will never be free of it. Unless he is very intelligent it will be impossible for him to get rid of it; something of it will remain around him like a hangover.

The perfectionist is another name for someone who is getting ready to become mad.

"Never speak of me in the past tense". My presence here will be many times greater without the burden of my tortured body.