“We’re controlled by ideas and norms that have outlived their usefulness, that are only ghosts but have as much influence on our behavior as they would if they were alive. The ideas of men like Henry Ford, Fredrick Taylor, and Max Weber — these are the ghosts that haunt our halls of management.” Robert H. Waterman JR., Adhocracy (1993)
“To be encrusted in gold and to die are one and the same thing… The greater the wealth you want to achieve the more dead you have to be…. All heights are suicidal!”
“The whole of existence exists without any logic. It may be a poetry but it is not a syllogism – hence it is so beautiful.”
“Darkness is an absence of light. Ego is an absence of awareness.”
“Respect life, revere life. There is nothing more holy than life, nothing more divine than life.”
“Never belong to a crowd; Never belong to a nation; Never belong to a religion; Never belong to a race. Belong to the whole existence. Why limit yourself to small things? When the whole is available.”
The mind is a beautiful servant but a bad master.
“Love the person, but give the person total freedom. Love the person, but from the very beginning make it clear that you are not selling your freedom.”
“If you love a person, you accept the total person. With all the defects. Because those defects are a part of the person. Never try to change a person you love, because the very effort to change says that you love half, and the other half of the person is not accepted. When you love, you simply love.”
“Tomorrow never comes, it is always today.”
“Life is not a problem. To look at it as a problem is to take a wrong step. It is a mystery to be lived, loved, experienced.”
“Commit as many mistakes as possible, remembering only one thing: don’t commit the same mistake again. And you will be growing.”
“Life begins where fear ends.”
“Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.”
“Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.”
“Nobody has the power to take two steps together; you can take only one step at a time.”
“Truth is not to be found outside. No teacher, no scripture can give it to you. It is inside you and if you wish to attain it, seek your own company. Be with yourself.”
“The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.”
“You are being taught everything, but you are not being taught to be yourself. This is the ugliest form of society possible, because it makes everybody miserable.”