Misery is as infectious as any disease. Blissfulness is also infectious as any disease.

The first thing to be understood is that if love becomes an attachment, you were just in an illusion that it was love. You were just fooling yourself and thinking that this was love. Really, you were in need of attachment. And if you go still deeper, you will find that you were also in need of becoming a slave.

An unselfish person is uprooted, uncentered. He is in deep neurosis. He is against nature; he cannot be healthy and whole. He is fighting against the current of life, being, existence—he is trying to be unselfish. He cannot be unselfish—because only a selfish person can be unselfish.

You have to go alone on the pilgrimage, because the pilgrimage is going to be inside. You cannot take anybody with you. And you have to drop everything that you have learned from others, because all those prejudices will distort your vision—you will not be able to see the naked reality of your being. The naked reality of your being is the only hope

Ego and love cannot exist together. They are like light and darkness: when light comes, darkness disappears. If you love yourself you will be surprised—self-love means the self disappears. In self-love there is no self ever found. That is the paradox: Self-love is utterly selfless. It is not selfish—because whenever there is light there is no

The lower is the foundation of the higher.

The person who does not love himself will not be able to love anybody else, ever. The first ripple of love has to rise in your heart. If it has not risen for yourself it cannot rise for anybody else, because everybody else is further away from you.

The idea of separation is our illusion. The idea of oneness will be our experience of the ultimate truth. Just a little more intelligence is needed and you can come out of the gloom, the misery, the hell in which the whole of humanity is living. The secret of coming out of this hell is to remember yourself. And this remembrance will become possible

Keep man as miserable as possible—because a miserable man is confused, a miserable man has no self-worth, a miserable man is self-condemnatory, a miserable man feels that he must have done something wrong. A miserable man has no grounding—you can push him from here and there, he can be turned into driftwood very easily. And a miserable man is