Be realistic: Plan for a miracle.

Life begins where fear ends.

Courage is a love affair with the unknown.

If you love a flower, don't pick it up. Because if you pick it up it dies and it ceases to be what you love. So if you love a flower, let it be. Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation.

Sadness gives depth. Happiness gives height. Sadness gives roots. Happiness gives branches. Both are needed, and the higher a tree goes, the deeper it goes, simultaneously.

Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.

Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence.

Don't choose. Accept life as it is in its totality.

Listen to your being. It is continuously giving you hints; it is a still, small voice. If you are a little quiet, you will start feeling your way.

Experience life in all possible ways — good-bad, bitter-sweet, dark-light, summer-winter. Experience all the dualities. The more experience you have, the more mature you become.

Meditation is the only answer to all the questions of man. The problem may be anything, but the answer is one: meditation is the answer.

To be in love is to be in paradise. To love without demanding anything in return is the greatest joy.

The real question is not whether life exists after death. The real question is whether you are alive before death.

Accept yourself as you are. And that is the most difficult thing in the world, because it goes against your training, your education, your culture.

A certain darkness is needed to see the stars.

Truth is not something outside to be discovered, it is something inside to be realized.

Live intensely, live totally, here and now, for only the present moment is real.

Love is the goal, life is the journey.

The mind: a beautiful servant, a dangerous master.

Nobody has the power to take two steps together; you can only take one step at a time.

Respect your uniqueness, and drop comparison. Relax into your being.

In love the other is important; in lust oneself is important.

A single moment of total awareness is more valuable than a lifetime of unconsciousness.

Don't seek, don't search, don't ask, don't demand — relax. If you relax, it is there.

Intelligence is dangerous. Intelligence means you will start thinking on your own; you will start looking around on your own.

Whenever you are afraid, try to explore, and you will find death hiding somewhere behind. All fear is of death.

Freedom is the highest value, and if love is not giving you freedom then it is not love. Freedom is the criteria.

Each person comes into this world with a specific destiny — he has something to fulfill, some message has to be delivered, some work has to be completed.

Friendship is the purest love. It is the highest form of love where nothing is asked for, no condition, where one simply enjoys giving.

When you drop expectations, you have learned to live.

Laughter is tremendous relaxation. Laughter brings you from the mind to the no-mind.

The moment you become aware of the watcher, you have stepped outside the wheel of karma.

To be creative means to be in love with life.

Doubt is not a sin, it is a sign of your intelligence. You are responsible only for one thing, and that is self-discovery.

Remain in wonder if you want the mysteries to open up for you. Mysteries never open up to those who go on questioning.

Celebration is my attitude, unconditional to what life brings.

Falling in love you remain a child; rising in love you mature. By and by love becomes not a relationship, it becomes a state of your being.

My meditation is simple. It does not require any complex practices. It is simple: just watch.

Get out of your head and get into your heart. Think less, feel more.

Zen is a revolution. It does not give you any dogma; it simply gives you the methodology to find your own light.

Only silence speaks the language of the soul.

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

To understand the beauty of a river, you have to flow with it, not stand on the bank.

Be a lotus flower: be in the water, and do not let the water touch you.

Enlightenment is not an achievement, it is the realization that there is nothing to achieve.

Whenever a choice arises, choose the unknown, choose the risky, choose that which makes your heart beat faster.

The greatest fear in the world is of the opinions of others. The moment you are unafraid of the crowd you are no longer a sheep, you become a lion.

To be joyful is the only virtue; to be miserable is the only sin.

Meditation is nothing but a holiday from your mind.

Love should be like breathing. It should just be a quality in you — wherever you are, with whomsoever you are, love goes on overflowing from you.

Walk without a goal, love without a reason, live without a hurry.

The ego is not what you are. The ego is what the world thinks you are.

Don't try to understand life. Live it! Don't try to understand love. Move into love!

Silence is the space in which the absolute manifests itself.

You are not an accident. Existence needs you. Without you, something will be missing in existence and nobody can replace it.

A mature person has the quality of responsiveness. He does not react, he responds.

If you are unhappy, remember: you are the cause of it. If you are blissful, remember: you are the cause of it.

The past is no more and the future is not yet: both are unnecessarily moving in directions which don't exist. Be in the present.

Let your life dance lightly on the edges of time like dew on the tip of a leaf.

Innocence is the door to the divine.

When two lovers meet, time stops. When two meditators meet, eternity begins.

Be rooted in yourself, and then give your branches to the world.

Awareness is the alchemy. Just become aware of anger and anger disappears; become aware of greed and greed disappears.

Don't follow anyone, because following means you are imitating. And imitation is the murder of your originality.

Life is a mirror: it reflects its own face to the watcher.

The art of living consists in being sensitive to each moment, in seeing it as new and unique.

When you are totally silent, you are connected to the cosmos.

True rebellion is not against society; true rebellion is against your own unconsciousness.

Never surrender your freedom to anything or anyone. Freedom is the greatest treasure.

Joy is uncaused. You are joyful just because you are.

Every problem contains the seed of its own solution.

Love is the fragrance of silence.

Trust is the courage to step into the abyss.

Do not seek solutions from the outside. The outside can only create more questions.

The temple of God is inside you. Do not wander in stone temples.

If you can be playful with your life, misery cannot touch you.

Solitude is not loneliness. Solitude is the presence of oneself.

When the mind is empty, the universe pours in.

Desire is a prison; awareness is the key.

Nothing is permanent in life. Enjoy the change, celebrate the flow.

A bird does not sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

To live without comparison is to live with reverence for life.

The moment you accept yourself, all doors open.

Love gives freedom. If it demands, it is only a business deal.

You can only give to others what you already have in abundance inside.

Be unhurried. Nature never rushes, yet everything is achieved.

Your heartbeat is the music of the universe.

Do not fight with darkness; just light a candle.

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived.

True wisdom is to live without guilt and without regret.

Watch your thoughts as if they are clouds passing in the sky. Do not cling, do not push.

Rejoice in the ordinary, for in the ordinary lies the extraordinary.

Laughter and dance are the purest prayers.

When you touch someone with love, you touch their eternal soul.

Compassion is the overflow of your own inner peace.

A conscious man has no past and no future; he has only the present.

Do not live by rules; live by awareness.

The journey to truth begins with a single step: honesty with oneself.

Be a light unto yourself.

Awareness is the greatest alchemy there is. Just go on becoming more and more aware, and you will find your life changing for the better in every possible dimension.

The wound is the place where the light enters you.

What you seek is seeking you.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.