“My whole teaching consists of two words, meditation and love.”

If you love a person you will not interfere with his personal life. You would not dare to break the boundaries of his inner world.

The feminine is more powerful than the masculine, the soft is more powerful than the hard, the water is more powerful than the rock.

You are not here accidentally – you are here meaningfully. There is a purpose behind you. The whole intends to do something through you.

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.

Godliness consists in the knowledge love & worship of God, Humanity in love, righteousness & good offices towards man.

I think that the sweetest freedom for a man on earth consists in being able to live, if he likes, without having the need to work.

Society does not consist of individuals, but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.

A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.

Nine tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

The better part of one’s life consists of his friendships.