Friendship is a relationship, friendliness is a state of your being. You are simply friendly; to whom, that is not the point. . .

Your absence is the presence of godliness.

This has to be your first lesson in sannyas: accept yourself, love yourself, drop all guilt, don`t divide yourself. There is nothing higher, nothing lower; all of you is divine. The lowest is as divine as the highest.

Getting love is a very small experience. It is the experience of beggar.

In the West, marriage is collapsing because it is based on love. And a marriage that is based on love is bound to fail. There is a reason for this: whenever two persons fall in love, both of them present what is beautiful in themselves to the other and hide the ugly. When you fall in love, whether you are a man or a woman, you show your most beautiful face to the other - but it is not your reality, it is not your totality.

Knowledge is the barrier to knowing. When knowledge is dropped, knowing flowers.

All the religions of the world say God is the creator. If he is really the creator, then the only way to meet him will be to become a creator in some measure.