“To give love, the first basic requirement is to have it.”

Truth is not to be found outside. No teacher, no scripture can give it to you. It is inside you and if you wish to attain it, seek your own company. Be with yourself.

No relationship can truly grow if you go on holding back.

Domination is a sort of hatred, anger, enmity.

Love the person, but give the person total freedom. Love the person, but from the very beginning make it clear that you are not selling your freedom.

When I say be creative I don’t mean that you should all go and become great painters and great poets. I simply mean let your life be a painting, let your life be a poem.

The way of love is the way of no-expectation. Love exists only when there is a total acceptance and no desire to change anything.

Mind: A beautiful servant, a dangerous master.

Millions of people are suffering: they want to be loved but they don’t know how to love. And love cannot exist as a monologue; it is a dialogue, a very harmonious dialogue.

Wherever you are afraid, try to explore, and you will find death hiding somewhere behind. All fear is of death. Death is the only fear source.

What is discipline? Discipline means creating an order within you. As you are, you are a chaos.

To avoid pain, they avoid pleasure. To avoid death, they avoid life.

Without freedom you can never be happy.

When I say be creative I don’t mean that you should all go and become great painters and great poets. I simply mean let your life be a painting, let your life be a poem.

Without freedom you can never be happy.

Loneliness is a black hole, a darkness, a frightening negative state almost like death.

It is beautiful to be alone, it is also beautiful to be in love, to be with people. And they are complementary, not contradictory.

True love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have.

Either give me more wine or leave me alone.

When you give yourself, you receive more than you give.

The increase of disorder or entropy is what distinguishes the past from the future, giving a direction to time.

We all have Hitler in us, but we also have love and peace. So why not give peace a chance for once?

Don’t give me what I ask for, give me what I need.

The vision is really about empowering workers giving them all the information about what’s going on so they can do a lot more than they’ve done in the past.

When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.