The body is a natural reservoir of joy.

Your body is your most effective environment for learning the art of controlling your mind—which means being able to direct your attention, at will.

You are not a biological being. Only your body is biological. The rest of you is spiritual, through-and-through.

It’s the state of being alive (i.e., not dead) and having a body, that makes all things possible (especially spirituality, transformation, personal growth, transcendental knowing and any type of progress toward real God). Whatever’s possible, all that’s possible, is only possible, because of (not in spite of) the body.

I advise you, I encourage you—and from the bottom of my heart I implore you—to turn away from the trivia of this short and illusion-filled life, and instead, turn toward the Divine Reality (where you always and already are). One of the fastest and most powerful ways of achieving this turn, is to fully inhabit your body.

The whole reason you can focus, can get somewhere, can advance inwardly, the reason you can advance spiritually, is because this mind and this body exist in this lifetime. The body is really the enhancer of the mind. My experience is, when you die, mind remains, and then you’re really stuck, because you can’t go anywhere. There’s no body to move somewhere, to do something, with whatever the mind has put its attention on. Then you aren't in the same degree of control as when you’re in a body. Then your mind determines your reality and your experience in a much more direct, much more haphazard way, unless and until you reach that profounder point while still in the body; unless you anchor yourself, find your place in Eternity and Infinity, here now—before your mind determines it for you. Because it doesn’t have the control the body gives you.

The body is actually a gift of control. It’s like the steering wheel. It’s not the enemy. It’s not what keeps you locked in the car. It’s what allows you to go somewhere. Conventionally it’s thought of as what has you locked in the car, you want to get out of the car. No, it’s the steering wheel. It’s what allows you to get somewhere.

The absolute truth is, there is nowhere that you begin and there is nowhere that you end. See if you can have a sense of that, for real, right now—not as a belief, not as an idea, not as something somebody tells you, but in your own experience. See if you can experience how much bigger you are than this body...

The acceptance of the fact of death is an essential element of a valid spiritual path.

Death is neither the end of life nor the opposite of life. Death is the backdrop for life—the chiaroscuro that provides depth, meaning, urgency, profundity, clarity—the motivation to live. But above all, death is the mysterious beyond, itself.

How you live determines how you die. How you live and how you die determines your experience of Eternity. And this continues to go on—your destiny ever-changing, on and on—until you get to some kind of liberation, some kind of true realization, some kind of break with the illusions of phenomena (which are neither the Eternal nor the Truth nor the Divine).

Death is not the outside turns off, death is the inside is all that's left.

Any fear you've ever experienced, can be traced back to the only real fear there is: the fear of death.

What/where you are right now, is what/where you will be for eternity—unless and until you change (transform or transcend) what/where you are right now. This very moment, your fate is sealed. Spiritual life is about re-sealing it, in the direction of the Divine.

I am here to help you with life and death—to avoid neither and to transcend both.

The ego is just a grab bag of pre-set preferences.

Ego is only interested in one thing: getting its own way.

Ego is memory misused. It’s the ‘you’ you think you are, the ‘you’ you hope you are, and the ‘you’ you wish you weren’t. Ego is the direct manifestation and expression of the survival instinct—as well as all desire, identification and attachment.

‘I-me-mine' is your constant mantra, your continuous meditation. This is the exact opposite of the Divine. The Divine is 'everything-everyone-everywhere'. Give up the poison of 'I-me-mine'—and the Divine becomes immediately apparent.

The ego’s job: to come up with excuses as you move forward—more and more, subtler excuses.

Ego is the reaction of turning away from being truly and fully engaged with the continuous change and actual non-knowing which is simply the context of all human experiencing, the core nature of self-aware presence itself.

What's ego? The feeling of ‘I’. What's the Divine? The feeling of ‘us’. There's no more I—there's just we.

Anything that feels like something other than love—that will be ego.

Your ego is not the problem. The problem is that you follow the ego, you listen to it, you believe it. Stop believing what your ego tells you and then there’s no problem.

Ego is nothing more and nothing less than the feeling of "I'm right".

Being egoless doesn't make you a saint, it just makes you no longer walking around thinking it's about 'you'.

...All of my efforts are for the purpose of helping you to attain the proper perspective, the proper proportions in seeing yourself in relation to humanity and the world and the universe and existence and god. The correct perspective is simply the standpoint of sincere and true (involuntary) humility. True humility is openness. True humility is egolessness. True humility is acceptance of the unknown and willingness to enter fully into the mystery of it.

The inward journey and the outward journey both, are simply roads toward greater understanding. Eventually you arrive at the destination: humility. Humility is the final goal—and the last stop on the main highway. Beyond actual humility, there is only ever-deepening discovery of the mysteries of existence. The humble attitude turns out to be a certain kind of strength, a force in itself. You can only come to know this by experiencing it directly, for yourself. Otherwise, the real meaning and power of humility are never revealed to you—cannot be fully fathomed by you.

The real problem is just that you believe all of your own beliefs. This makes you closed to actual reality. Western society has taught you that this is the correct approach—but it is not. In fact, it is anti-spiritual! The truly spiritual stance sees all beliefs and opinions as just inadequate substitutes for the truth. Why settle for less? You can know, rather than just believe. You can find out factually, for yourself. This is absolutely possible, for any intelligent person.

A human life is an opportunity for God—nothing more, nothing less.

God doesn’t bring contentment; contentment brings God.

Do you really think that Truth, God, Self-Realization—will come to you with no effort on your part? Or with only minimal effort? You will have to stake everything on it. You will have to be willing to pay the price of admission. Willingness is the key.

The usual position is the ‘anti’ position, concerned with everything except that which matters—God.

When you are unwilling to be surprised, you're unwilling for God.

Only God IS.

Only Reality IS.

Only that which is, IS.

I bow to the Truth within you. I bow to the Truth that is you.

Only God exists. All else is misidentification or dream-stuff. 

You just have to be willing to accept that it might already be under your nose, that it might actually be close at hand, and always has been close at hand... Let the singing and dancing begin!

God doesn't make mistakes. Existence doesn't mess up. And no matter what you think— you are an expression of perfection itself.

If you really want the Divine, you must pay the price of admission. The divine’s price of admission is ‘you.’ You pay with ‘you’—you hand yourself over, in toto. You pay with all of you, so that there’s no ‘you’ left at all. Nothing left. You hand over all remaining vestiges of what you call ‘you’. Nothing left at all. You disappear completely—only an empty space, everywhere where before there was an ‘I’ or a ‘me’ or a ‘mine.’ You die: no you; no you of any kind. You simply go away.

Intention isn’t significant, until God’s intention has you.

If all is God’s will, then all is not only as it is, but amazingly enough, as it should be, as it has to be, as it must be, as it can only be. So why not relax? Why not rejoice?

God isn't in you; God is you. God is the 'YOU', in you.

In the end God comes to you, but only because you brought yourself first.

It's not about you going somewhere. It's about you becoming acceptable to God.

Aliveness is the essence of God.

The omnipresent, omnidimensional, omniscient and omnipotent presence of the All & the Everything—always and everywhere—is the very proof of god that so many are looking for. But first you must have the eyes to see it.

You don't get to God, you feel to God.

Everybody wants to be happy, which means everybody wants God. They just don’t know it; they don’t know the translation.

You practice meditation, so meditation can practice you.

Everything that you do, amounts to meditation. Whatever you focus on, whatever you concentrate on, whatever you give your energy to, whatever you think about—is ‘meditating’ upon it. Ordinarily, that is not the everyday understanding of meditation, but it’s true. Most people are meditating on their problems.

When you relax, the universe starts to answer questions you never even asked.

I am for any type of meditation whatsoever–even bad meditation! Any meditation–any form of attention to the soul, to the Divine, is better than no meditation at all.

Most people are meditating on what they like, or don’t like. Most people are meditating on how to be happy, how to have a better life, how to make more money, how to get sex—so don’t be confused. What you give your attention to, IS your meditation. Formal meditation, the ‘practice’ of meditation, is an antidote for these involuntary meditations that people are always engaging in without realizing it. You get to focus on something different, something perhaps of your choosing.

You become what you focus on.

Wherever you put your attention, that's your life.

Meditation is paying attention to what you are.

Meditation means falling into your being. Can you just be, right now? Can you accept this moment, just as it is, right now, without needing to change anything, without needing to interpret anything, without needing to have anything this way or that way, one way or another way? Can you drop your name, your history, your self-definition? Can you just, right now, be?

The Guru is an alive presence that can actually challenge you (which mind can never do).

The Guru is God’s intervention for you, God coming into your life.

My work is to help you end suffering, to find clarity, to go beyond all the barriers that have been created in you. My effort is to help you reach to your true self.

The Guru is not your 'good father' nor your 'good mother'. The Guru is not your role model. He or she is not in your life to 'improve' it, or even to improve you. The Guru is the fire that burns away your ordinary life—leaving only Truth.

The Guru is a permanent optimist.

Understanding what the Guru says is more important than agreeing or disagreeing with what the Guru says.

If you are really my disciple, and you submit to my heart. it will lead you to me.

For the devotee the Guru is the doorway to the universal.

The Guru is like a prison guard—gives you a real shakedown, taking all your little weapons you hide (which equals your resistance).

My intention is to help you and encourage you to face that which Existence is calling you to face. And it always means that which has not fully yet been faced. Fully yet been met. Fully been allowed to simply take you…

My challenge to  you, my exhortation to you—my invitation to you, my beloved ones—is to stop living in doubt, and to start living in me.  This is the method that works, for living in satsang. And only the life lived in satsang, is truly worth living.

Life is other people.

You can't lose when you give love. 

If you want love, the worst method is to look for it. If you really want love, become a lover. Better yet, just become Love. Be Love itself: Love everyone you meet. Even Love everyone you will never meet! Stop wanting to be loved, and start loving—and your life will be a blessing to the entire world—to existence itself.

Everything you have, has been given to you to share.

Other people are the path to God.

Love always brings the right people.

No one affects you more than who you spend your time with.

...You have a meaningful and direct karmic link to anyone who shows up in your life for any reason... Treat other people well.

You are part of the very fabric of existence, not separate in any way whatsoever from anyone or anything. You are a vital part of the All, intrinsic and necessary. You are not an island. I heartily encourage you to live accordingly. 

Learn from everyone, but adopt only what is truly right for you. 

All human interaction is a request for love.

One of the ultimate demands of spirituality is that you connect for real with other people; is that you recognize for real that there are no strangers, there are only brothers and sisters.

All relationships are eternal.

The final (secret) keys to the mastery, transcendence and full actualization of all personal relationships (and in actuality, to all relationships—and in real actuality, to all relating) are openness and vulnerability.

Your heart is connected directly to my heart—simply because all hearts are connected for real. And you can experience this for yourself—for real—and therein know the unity of all—which changes your life completely, and for the better. My whole work is to demonstrate this to you.

Discipleship is a vehicle for transcendence itself.

Guru/disciple is one thing: a relationship—a relationship that leads to the Divine.

A disciple lives an intentional life.

...The Guru/Disciple relationship is falling in tune with the vibe of the Guru, more and more falling into that energy. It’s not imitating the Guru, it’s not acting like the Guru, it’s not trying to be like the Guru (because you can only be you). The Guru appears as this body and this person, but you also carry the inner Guru. And when you fall more in tune with the vibe of the outer Guru, more and more, the inner Guru comes to the surface.

...When you understand rightly, you will see that the outer guru and the inner guru are not separate. The disciple’s entire attraction to the outer guru is based on an (unconscious) recognition that the master represents their inner being, their own inner wisdom, their own heart. The disciple has not yet recognized the depths of their own heart, and therefore experiences those depths most readily with and through the master. But no one can experience anything through another, that they do not already have within themselves.

This is the value of the guru—that he gives you a glimpse of what is already there inside you, that you haven’t yet seen for yourself. You can see it clearly in him—in his words, in his gestures, in his posture, in his facial expressions—but it is your own wisdom you are seeing and feeling—it is your own love, it is your own divinity. If you can trust it in me, can you take the next steps, and find it and trust it in yourself? You cannot, until you have accomplished the relinquishments that are the first phase of discipleship.

A Spiritual Master, an actual Guru, is simply a perfected disciple, an utter devotee—one who has become so lost in their Master, abides in the Master—such that they themself have become suitable for representing the Divine—the essence of their Master's message—to others.

Discipleship is a recognition. It’s when the disciple has recognized his/her true teacher, his/her Master. A moment comes when the disciple recognizes “Yes, this is the one. Through him/her I find my Freedom.”

Discipline is the method for freedom.

The guru and the disciple are in a great struggle: If the disciple loses, the disciple wins; If the disciple wins, the disciple loses.