First in the Morning

That’s how we become able to love: if we are loved we can love; if we are not loved we don’t know how to love, we don’t know what love is.

Paradise is not somewhere else. Paradise is not geographical. It is not above the clouds in the heavens; it is within you. And it is not in some other time, after death. It is in you right now. You are made of it, so there is no need to seek and search anywhere else.

A life becomes a dance only when it is an adventure. And it can become an adventure only when there is something higher than you to achieve, to reach.

All the great masters of the world were teaching methods of moving your inner being into higher planes. They were helping people to grow wings. And all the churches have been trying to divide you because that is the fundamental way to rule over people: divide and rule. You can easily divide a person and then he becomes powerless; his energies start fighting within him, he becomes a chaos, then you can rule him. All the churches are interested not in transforming you but in enslaving you, in ruling you, in exploiting you.

Failure is absolutely certain, inevitable. It is like a small wave fighting against the whole ocean: it belongs to the ocean – how can it fight?

Only when you are in deep, intimate relationship with life does it open its heart to you. In that very opening one comes to know what truth is, what love is, what bliss is, what existence is.

First one has to become harmonious within oneself and then one can be harmonious with the universe, with the stars and the moon and the sun and the trees and the birds – one can merge into this whole, vast, infinite universe. There are two mergers: one within yourself, the first unity, and the second, with the whole, the second unity. And within these two steps the whole journey is complete.

desires bring other problems too: there will be jealousy, there will be possessiveness, there will be clinging, there will be fear, competition, comparison, and between all these boundaries you cannot be free. Unless you are free of all these, you are not free.

Iron chains are not as dangerous because you can see them, and because you can see them they can be broken. The chains created by desires are invisible, and because you cannot see them you go on thinking you are free. But a man living in desires is not a free man, he is living in constant bondage. He always desires more. His greed is his imprisonment: he will live like a prisoner and die like a prisoner.

The moment you are not identified with the body, when you know “I am separate, I am consciousness,” you are immediately freed from illness, old age, death.