23 quotes found
“Love is the key, love is the secret.”
“I would like Epicurus and Buddha to become one.”
“Zen is the purest of meditations: just sit silently, doing nothing.”
“If you are intelligent, if you are alert, the ordinary becomes the extraordinary.”
“Remember, truth cannot be conquered. One has to surrender to truth, one has to be conquered by truth.”
“Be a man: accept the challenge of the unknown, of the beyond. Let it become a great dream in your being.”
“This is the secret of the golden flower: if the heart can die the flower will bloom, die as you are so you can be reborn.”
“A mystic is one who has dropped all dreams, who has thrown away this mirror of the mind and who looks directly into life, without any medium interfering. Then he sees the eternal progression, then ...”
“Untalented people, unintelligent people go into politics. Those who are talented become artists, painters, poets, philosophers, mystics, dancers. They have a thousand and one other beautiful things...”
“Risk all. Let life be a play, a risk, a gamble. And when you can risk all you will attain to a sharpness in your being: your soul will be born. The Golden Flower can bloom in you only if you are co...”
“Millions of beauties and splendors are waiting for you. You go on moving around and around, never entering into the temple of life. The door is the heart.”
“Man is a question mark . . . and it is a blessingcelebrate it. It is a blessing because only man is a question mark; no dog is, no tree is. The rose bush is beautiful but not as beautiful as man, a...”
“The day you leave, this will be your only contentment: if you have made the existence a little more beautiful.”
“A totally new kind of education is needed in the world. The person who is born to be a poet is proving himself stupid in mathematics and the person who could have been a great mathematician is just...”
“Breathing in, let golden light come into you through your head, because it is there that the Golden Flower is waiting. That golden light will help. It will cleanse your whole body and will make it ...”
“Real meditation means: dont avoid the inner madhouse; enter into it, face it, encounter it, be watchful, because it is through watchfulness that you will overcome it.”
“When you have gone beyond thinking, and if you can still remain alert, aware, as if one is fast asleep but still alertdeep down at the very core of ones being a lamp goes on burning, a small candle...”
“The path of Tao is not that of sudden enlightenment. It is not like Zen. Zen is sudden enlightenment, Tao is gradual growth.”
“A buddha lives in the orgasmic state for twenty-four hours, day in and day out. Between the day Gautama Buddha became enlightened and the day he died there is a distance of forty-two years. For the...”
“If one comes to fundamentals then this is the most fundamental thing: the moment you are not, enlightenment is. With emptiness, the matter is settled.”
“Just look around! This immense universe is functioning so perfectly well that nothing can be added to it. It needs no improvement. Seeing this, one relaxes. If stars can go on dancing and flowers c...”
“Live in insecurity! Live in revolution! Be a rebel! Risk, because nothing is ever attained in life without risk. The more you risk, the closer you are to God. When you can risk all, all is yours.”
