So it is both: no-self in the sense that it is not only yours, and the ultimate self also, because it is the self of all. You lose your tiny center and you attain to the center of existence itself. Suddenly you become infinite; suddenly you are no longer bound, you have no cage around your being, and infinite power starts flowing through you.

Imagination is the one faculty you have that comes closest to God.

Share but don’t trade, don’t make bargains. Give because you have, don’t give to take back—because then you will be in misery. All traders go to hell. If you want to find the greatest traders and bargainers go to hell, there you will find them. Heaven is not for traders, heaven is for celebrators.

Consciousness is being, compassion is feeling, creativity is action.

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

These are your three dimensions: being, feeling, action. Action contains creativity, all kinds of creativity—music, poetry, painting, sculpture, architecture, science, technology. Feeling contains all that is aesthetic—love, beauty. And being contains meditation, awareness, consciousness.

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That is the point of transcendence—surpassing. And in surpassing, the miracle happens: you are not, and yet for the first time you are.

That’s why I say that a poet is far closer to God than a theologian, a dancer even closer. The philosopher is the farthest away because the more you think, the greater the wall you create between you and the whole. The more you think, the more you are. The ego is nothing but all the thoughts you have accumulated in the past. When you are not, God i