When you are willing to stop looking for something in thought, you find everything in silence.

My whole effort is to give you a consciousness, not a character. Consciousness is the real thing, character the false entity.

Character is needed by those who don’t have consciousness. If you have eyes, you don’t need a walking stick to find your way, to grope your way. If you can see you don’t ask others, “Where is the door?”

Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you need? Because this is the experience you are having at the moment.

If you follow love, devotion, surrender, one day you will suddenly find you are full of meditation. If you follow meditation, one day you will find the beloved has come, he has knocked at the door.

Detach yourself from those things, which are not permanent, and rest in that which is always permanent.

Be an open space for whatever arises. Notice that you are the space in which everything arises. When everything is allowed to arise, you have the opportunity to perceive That which does not arise or subside. You Are That.

Be meditative, be prayerful. Remember these two sutras: “This too will pass away” – that will help you to meditate – and the second sutra, “Thy will be done”; that will help you to be prayerful. And when meditation and prayerfulness meet, you are at the highest peak of consciousness possible.

The way is not really a way. It is a depth. It is not a distance.It is a deepening into the stillness, stabilising in the unmoving. It is not a walking journey. Journeys are for the body and the ego-mind. But the subtlety of intuitive seeing takes you deeper into the bliss of the unknowable.

Jij bent altijd stilte; dat is je essentie. Maar dat ben je vergeten. Je denkt dat je duizend en één verschillende dingen bent, maar dat is niet zo. In je centrum ben jij degene die je altijd bent geweest.

Wanneer al deze duizenden ideeën en dromen je verlaten, wanneer je niet belast bent door welke gedachten of geest dan ook, dan kun je voor het eerst zien hoe het is om een leven in vrijheid te leiden.

Nobody else can destroy you except you; nobody else can save you except you. You are the Judas and you are the Jesus.

When I say be creative I don’t mean that you should all go and become great painters and great poets. I simply mean let your life be a painting, let your life be a poem.

Is there a difference between happiness and inner peace? Yes. Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive; inner peace does not.

When you know that you are meditating it is not meditation.

When someone tells you, “I love you,” and then you feel, “Oh, I must be worthy after all,” that’s an illusion. That’s not true.

Or someone says, “I hate you,” and you think, “Oh, God, I knew it; I’m not very worthy,” that’s not true either.

Neither one of these thoughts hold any intrinsic reality. They are an overlay. When someone says, “I love you,” he is telling you about himself, not you. When someone says, “I hate you,” she is telling you about herself, not you.

World views are self views—literally.

They say: Think twice before you jump. I say: Jump first and then think as much as you want.

Even when there is nothing happening, there is the witnessing of nothing happening.

You are here. However you imagine yourself to be, you are here. Imagine yourself as a body, you are here. Imagine yourself as God, you are here. Imagine yourself as worthless, superior, nothing at all, you are still here. My suggestion is that you stop all imagining, here.

It is exactly like when you have a headache – you know. You don’t ask anybody, “Please tell me when I have a headache. How am I going to know that it is a headache, that I am really having it?” No – you will know.

When the real certainty arises, it is so clear, so crystal-clear – like a pillar of light – and just by its arising you are washed clean. Just by its arising you feel a new being, altogether new, a new birth.

It is not intellectual, it is not in the head; you will feel it all over your body, all over your mind, all over your heart – your totality will feel it. When that certainty arises, then it is faith, then it is trust.

What a liberation to realize that the "voice in my head" is not who I am. Who am I then? The one who sees that.

That ocean of eternal peace is you. What is the difficulty that we suffer from? It is that we seek peace elsewhere and do not experience that we are peace incarnate itself.