Sublime

Never treat any person as a means. Treat everybody as an end in himself, in herself—then you don’t cling, then you are not attached. You love, but your love gives freedom—and, when you give freedom to the other, you are free. Only in freedom does your soul grow. You will feel very, very happy.

The more you possess, the more the ego is strengthened; without possessions the ego cannot exist. It leans on possessions, it depends on possessions. So if you have more money, more power, more prestige, a beautiful woman, a beautiful man, beautiful children, the ego feels immensely nourished. When possessions disappear, when you don’t possess anyt

Activity is your escape from yourself. In action you are; in activity you have escaped from yourself—it is a drug. In activity you forget yourself, and when you forget yourself there

Consciousness has no idea of “I,” of ego. It has no idea of one’s separation from existence. It does not know any barrier. It knows no boundaries—it is one with existence, it is in a deep at-onement. There is no conflict between the individual and the whole. One is simply flowing into the whole, and the whole is flowing into one. It is like breathi

master is one who can do both.

Be hope-less

Too often so-called insights into the nature of our illness or a reconstruction of childhood trauma may simply be a crutch that confirm a belief in our intrinsic infirmity rather than give rise to the strength to trust our own resiliency in the face of our life as it is. Zen offers us a counterbalancing insight into our essential wholeness, a whole

Life is always a choice. If you don’t love, that does not mean that you can simply remain in that not-loving state. No, you will hate. And the person who hates himself becomes destructive. The person who hates himself will hate everybody else—he will be so angry and violent and continuously in rage. The person who hates himself, how can he hope tha