Where’s the fire? Where’s the love? Where’s the drug uprooted from your system? Where’s the freedom? This is what spirituality is all about. If worship isn’t leading to the fire, if adoration isn’t leading to love, if the liturgy isn’t leading to a clearer perception of reality, if God isn’t leading to life, of what use is religion except to create more division, more fanaticism, more antagonism? It is not from lack of religion in the ordinary sense of the word that the world is suffering, it is from lack of love, lack of awareness. And love is generated through norther way than through awareness. Understand the obstructions you are putting in the way of love, freedom, and happiness and they will drop.

Think of a life in which you depend on no one emotionally, so that no one has the power to make you happy or miserable anymore. You refuse to need any particular person or to be special to anyone or to call anyone your own. The birds of the air have their nests and the foxes their holes, but you will have nowhere to rest your head in your journey through life. If you ever get to this state, you will at last know what it means to see with a vision that is clear and unclouded by fear or desire.

“We live in a flash of light; evening comes and it is night forever.” It’s only a flash and we waste it. The way to really live is to die. The passport to living is to imagine yourself in your grave.

Information is not insight, analysis is not awareness, knowledge is not awareness. You don’t change yourself, it’s not me changing me. Change takes place through you, in you.

If you want a road to mysticism, sit down quietly and listen to all the sounds around you. Try to hear them all. You’ll see the miracles that happen to you when your senses come unclogged. That is extremely important for the process of change.

You were given a taste for the drug called approval, appreciation, attention. Others now have the power to make you happy or miserable.

When you have attained wisdom, who can enslave you? What does it mean to love? It means to see a person, a situation, a thing as it really is, not as you imagine it to be. 

If you would die to the past, if you would die toevery minute, you would be the person who is fully alive, because a fully alive person is one who is full of death. We’re always dying to things. We’re always shedding everything in order to be fully alive and to be resurrected at every moment. Meditating on and imitating externally the behavior of Jesus is no help. It’s not a question of imitating Christ, it’s a question of becoming what Jesus was. It’s a question of becoming Christ, becoming aware, understanding what’s going on within you.

The more you resist something, the greater power you give to it. The more you fight darkness, the more real it becomes to you, and the more you exhaust yourself. But when you turn on the light of awareness, it melts.

There is a difference between knowledge and awareness, between information and awareness. I