A certain darkness is needed to see the stars.

If you cannot love yourself, you don’t know even the taste of love or what love means.

Drop the idea that attachment and love are one thing. They are enemies. It is attachment that destroys all love.

Freedom is a ladder: one side of the ladder reaches hell, the other side touches heaven. It is the same ladder; the choice is yours.

Take it easy, and remember “Easy is Right.”

Possessiveness destroys love. And they should not be possessed, because that again destroys your love.

Love needs two things: it has to be rooted in freedom and it has to know the art of trust.

You are a great problem-creator. Just understand this and suddenly problems disappear.

This very moment you can drop all problems because they are your creation.

Never sacrifice your life for anything! Sacrifice everything for life! Life is the ultimate goal.

You can become happy just by deciding to be happy.

Love is just like a breeze: it comes, but you should not close your doors to keep the breeze inside.

Love is the ultimate, the end. You love for love’s own sake. It is not a means to anything else, it is its own end.

Eyes which have lost their tears have lost their most beautiful, their most glorious treasure.

One day you will disappear on a funeral pyre – just into nothingness, as smoke. Don’t get attached to anything.

Be aware – deep down you are really attached to your negative emotions. They are your ego.

Intelligence never grows by imitation: Intelligence grows by experimentation. Intelligence grows by taking challenges.

If you cannot enjoy your own company, who else is going to enjoy it?

Your marriage is a subtle politics of domination. Your fatherhood, motherhood, is a subtle politics.