All creativity is a deep suffering, unless your creativity does not come out of the mind, but out of meditation. When it comes out of meditation, creativity is sharing the joy, sharing the blissfulness that you have. Mind has no joy - it is really a wound, very painful.

Your absence is the presence of godliness.

Zen lives in the present. The Whole teaching is: how to be in the present; how to get out of the past which is no more and how not to get involved in the future which is not yet, and just to be rooted, centered, in that which is.

Peace follows love energy like a shadow.

The ego is like too many dark clouds around the sun - the sun gets lost

God cannot be found outside you, because there is no God who can ever be outside you. God is the ultimate fragrance of your consciousness. When your consciousness opens like a lotus, the fragrance that is released is God - better to call it godliness.

It does not matter whether you paint, sculpt, or make shoes, whether you are a gardener, a farmer, a fisherman, a carpenter-it does not matter. What matters is, are you putting your very soul into what you are creating? Then your creative products have something of the quality of divine.

Why wait for reasons to laugh? Life as it is should be reason enough to laugh. It is so absurd, it is so ridiculous. It is so beautiful, so wonderful! It is all sorts of things together. It is a great cosmic joke.

As the witnessing deepens, you start becoming drunk with the divine. This is what is called ecstasy.

Freedom is our most precious treasure. Don't lose it for anything.

The knowledgeable person lives with a question mark '?' and the man of awe and wonder lives with an exclamation mark.

There are two kinds of witnesses. One kind is the people that surround you. You are constantly aware that you are being watched, witnessed. With so many eyes watching you, you are reduced to an object... And you are afraid because they may not appreciate you. They may not feed your ego, they may not like you, they may reject you. Now you are in their hands.

If you were only to listen, it becomes meditation. Without meditation you cannot hear. What is the meaning of meditation? Meditation exists only where mind is not; where the internal dialogue is gone.

Because there is no ego, God can flow through you; great creativity becomes possible.

Meditation is the alchemy of transforming. The unconscious into the conscious. It gives you a tremendous power, far greater than anger, greed, and lust.

Misery comes the moment you become clinging, attached. The moment you put conditions on life.

When ambition enters, creativity disappears - because an ambitious man cannot be creative, because an ambitious man cannot love any activity for its own sake. While he is painting he is looking ahead; he is thinking, 'When am I going to get a Nobel Prize?' When he is writing a novel, he is looking ahead. He is always in the future - and a creative person is always in the present.

Between two thoughts try to be alert; look into the interval, the space in between. You will see no mind; that is your nature. For thoughts come and go - they are accidental - but that inner space always remains. Clouds gather and go, disappear - they are accidental - but the sky remains. You are the sky.

Just remember one criterion: whatever you do should not be in the service of destruction, it should be in the service of creativity.

The only way to achieve something in the interior world is let-go - a kind of effortlessness, a relaxation. It is not a doing; it is nondoing. It is not action; it is inaction. And it seems difficult because everybody from the very beginning is told, Do something; don’t just go on sitting there! Something is always better than nothing. In the inner world these are not the laws. Nothing is better than everything.

Illusions are bound to be shattered.

The intelligent person depends on his own insight; he trusts his own being. He loves and respects himself.

The miserable person is easily enslaved. The cheerful person, the blissful person, cannot be enslaved.