“Be formless. As long as your “I” is asserted, it will be an idol of worship”

“The Tantric sages tell us that our in-breath and out-breath actually mirror the divine creative gesture. With the inhalation, we draw into our own center, our own being. With the exhalation, we expand outward into the world.”

“People who want a cure, provided they can have it without pain, are like those who favour progress, provided they can have it without change.”

“Spirituality does not lie in meditating the body of an ex-master. Spirituality exists in mediating on your own inner body.”

“As soon as you look at the world through an ideology you are finished. No reality fits an ideology. Life is beyond that. … That is why people are always searching for a meaning to life… Meaning is only found when you go beyond meaning. Life only makes sense when you perceive it as mystery and it makes no sense to the conceptualizing mind.”

“Don’t talk of Life as if its one big package of miseries – it is the very Essence within that passes through both you, and your enemies and every permissible illusion. Once you’re opened to, and are awakened to your TRUE NATURE, fireworks light up your path, irrespective whether it is a “Tariqa”, or a pathless one!”

“I was transformed the dayMy ego shattered,And all the superficial, materialThings that matteredTo me before,Suddenly ceasedTo matter.”

“RELIGION is like a rocket. Use it to raise your consciousness only. Drop it when you are in your ORBIT.”

“I believe from the bottom of my heart that what we call religion is the very most important matter for human beings. I cannot stress enough that the ultimate goal of religion, whether we call it satori or peace of mind, is for each individual to live in peace and tranquility, to live a full and satisfying life.”

“Joy comes from the ability to be with life as it is.”

“It’s in those quiet little towns, at the edge of the world, that you will find the salt of the earth people who make you feel right at home.”