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Concentration is one-pointed; contemplation has a wide area, and meditation is a fragment of that area.
Emptiness is your self.
Mind means words; self means silence.
whenever you have two things, two alternatives, choose the new one, choose the harder, choose the one in which more awareness will be needed.
You are not here just to become more and more efficient—you are here to become more and more alive; you are here to become more and more intelligent; you are here to become more and more happy, ecstatically happy.
The ambitious mind cannot meditate because the basic foundation of meditation is to be nonambitious.
I am utterly against poverty because whenever a country becomes poor it loses contact with all meditations, all spiritual efforts. Whenever a country becomes poor outwardly, it becomes unaware of the inner poverty.
Poverty is not spirituality; poverty is the cause of the disappearance of spirituality.
Your understanding of your own inner being will be of tremendous help to help others.
whole lie has a certain beauty, but a half-truth is ugly—ugly and dangerous, too—ugly because it is half.
Nothingness of you is the fullness of God,
My sannyas is nothing but living in the ordinary world, but living in such a way that you are not possessed by it; remaining transcendental, remaining in the world and yet a little above it.
Even if you have to go in a hurry, go slowly.
“Speech becomes valuable only when you have attained silence, otherwise it is futile—not only futile, dangerous also, because you are throwing rubbish into others’ heads. So this was my effort: that I would speak only when talking had completely stopped inside. When the inner talk had disappeared,
Meditation is the art of transcendence.
Freud talks about analysis, Assagioli about synthesis. Buddhas have always talked about meditation, awareness.
you can go on with closed eyes seeing Buddha or Krishna playing on the flute. You may be seeing a very religious dream, but it is still a dream, not reality. The reality is your consciousness.
Mind is a great liar, it goes on lying to you.
Your intensity, your wholeness, is your witness. So when you are witnessing and doing something you are not two—the doer is the witness.
It is always from the unknown that great experiences enter into our small hearts, and when we are trying hard to get them, we become so tense that the very tension prevents them.
