

“So be authentic when you feel angry toward your lover or your beloved. Be authentic while you are in anger, and then with no repression, when the moment of love will come, when the mind will move to the other extreme, you will have a spontaneous flow. So with mind, take fighting as part of it. It is the very dynamism of the mind to work in polar opposites. So be authentic in your anger, be authentic in your fight; then you will be authentic in your love also. So”
― The Book of Secrets: 112 Meditations to Discover the Mystery Within
― The Book of Secrets: 112 Meditations to Discover the Mystery Within

“Mind is tricky. If I say this is very difficult, the mind says, “This is so difficult it is beyond you.” If I say this is very simple, the mind says, “This is so simple that only fools can believe in it.” And mind goes on rationalizing things, always escaping from doing.”
― The Book of Secrets: 112 Meditations to Discover the Mystery Within
― The Book of Secrets: 112 Meditations to Discover the Mystery Within

“Dangers have their appeal because in danger your day-to-day, ordinary consciousness cannot function. Danger goes deep. Your mind is not needed; you become a no-mind. You are! You are conscious, but there is no thinking. That moment becomes meditative. Really, in gambling, gamblers are seeking a meditative state of mind. In danger – in a fight, in a duel, in wars – man has always been seeking meditative states.”
― The Book of Secrets: 112 Meditations to Discover the Mystery Within
― The Book of Secrets: 112 Meditations to Discover the Mystery Within

“Tension means you want to be something else which you are not.”
― The Book of Secrets: 112 Meditations to Discover the Mystery Within
― The Book of Secrets: 112 Meditations to Discover the Mystery Within

“The mind always moves on and on. Whatsoever you get becomes useless. The moment you get it, it is useless. This is desire. Buddha has called it trishna: this is becoming.”
― The Book of Secrets: 112 Meditations to Discover the Mystery Within
― The Book of Secrets: 112 Meditations to Discover the Mystery Within
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