Flowers and fruits will come out of a plant not because you want it, but simply because you created the necessary, conducive atmosphere. Similarly, if you create the necessary atmosphere within yourself, on all the four dimensions of who you are, then meditation will naturally flower within you. It is a certain fragrance that one can enjoy within himself.

If you keep the body still, the mind will slowly start collapsing and the mind knows that it will become enslaved if it allows this. The main aspect of meditation is, right now your mind is the boss and you are the slave. As you meditate and become more meditative, you will become the boss and your mind will become the slave and that is how it should always be. If you don’t know how to keep the mind as a slave, it will put you through all kinds of endless suffering. If you allow the mind to rule, it is a terrible master. But as a slave, the mind is wonderful – it is a miraculous slave.

If you have to do something that you do not like, you can only do it consciously. There is no other way to do it. Things that you like, you can do compulsively, but things that you do not like, you can only do consciously.

The idea of cultivating awareness is so that it slowly seeps into your life. One thing it does is, it enhances the quality of your life.

Your ability to experience something is inversely proportional to the amount of knowledge that you have gathered about it.

The fundamental of the spiritual process is that you stop all assumptions. What I know, I know. What I do not know, I do not know.

What you do is up to you, but you should do it consciously. That’s what it means to be human.

To seek means to have an active intelligence. You never stop learning.

The best thing you can do for the world is to be joyful.

Being able to shower affection on anyone without having a need for affection yourself – that’s freedom.