The Beauty of the Human Soul

we have dropped all the unnecessary baggage – because as you move higher you have to drop more luggage. On the plains you can carry much luggage, but when you start moving uphill you will have to choose what is unnecessary and drop it. Still higher, a few more things have to be dropped.

Life is an effort to write your signature on water – not even on sand, because on sand it may remain for a while before the wind comes and destroys it. It is writing on water, and it disappears as it appears – immediately, instantly – and nothing is left behind, not even smoke.

Compassion certainly includes the idea of saving others, but not against their will. If somebody does not want to be saved, you are not to force him; you do not have to save him at the point of a sword. That is not saving. That simply shows that in the name of saving you are trying to dominate people.

Death does not come suddenly, it is coming from the very day you were born.

You can sit upon a certain thing for thirty lives; it won’t make any difference. The only way to know who you are, of what your mind consists, is to be amid life and living in as many possible ways as you can find, opening all the doors and windows to every side of life so that you can become aware of who you are within, because each window will open into you and a certain hidden part will suddenly be exposed.

Hinduism says that this whole existence is just a drama and God is just playing a game. The word leela, playfulness, takes away seriousness and its implications. But it brings new implications: why can’t God sit silently? – because the people who teach that God is playing a game also teach, “Sit silently in meditation.” Why can’t he sit silently in meditation and stop all this nonsense?

You can live with an open heart,

Remember only one thing: don’t commit the same mistake again.

if it will not cause any change in you to know whether God is or is not, then the question is meaningless. It is just curiosity, not inquiry.

Ask something that is immediately concerned with you, something that is meaningful to you, that carries some transforming message for you.