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... and the other is always wrong. He is always discussing; his discussions become disgusting. He is always arrogant and always on the defensive. He cannot understand anybody. Whatsoever you say he will deny - he will say no because in no he knows there is power. Remember this: a man who has not learned the power of saying yes is not yet wise. He goes on saying no because whenever he says no he feels...
..., power, prestige, respectability, success in the marketplace, ambitions in the political world - he has failed there. He could not attain to the very peak of his egoistic journey; he could not become a president or a prime minister - now life is running out of his hands and he wants to be somebody. It is very, very uncomfortable to remain a nobody. Finally people start seeking and searching into the...
... power. He feels very gratified, contented. Now the ego is at the supermost. Even kings and prime ministers and presidents are coming to him. The disciple comes for wrong reasons. Or a disciple comes to attain a certain sort of peace because he is in much turmoil. Why does he want to attain to peace? He wants to attain to peace so that he can work out his ambitions in a better way. Just the other day I...
... more than you possess it. The possessor finally becomes the possessed. You-think you have so many things - riches, power, money - but deep down you are being possessed by those same things, you are being encaged, enchained, imprisoned by those same things. Look at the rich people. They don't possess riches - they are as poor as any other poor man in the world, they are as beggarly as any other beggar...
... of dollars, achieving this, attaining that, becoming this, becoming that, the power, the prestige, the money, the respectability - nothing counts. Finally you have to say only, 'I have lost my being.' In running, rushing into the dimension of having, only one thing happens - you lose your being. Life is a great opportunity, a great opportunity. In fact, there are millions of opportunities in it to...
... the Jews because you are now in power." Britishers and Americans - because they won the second world war and were in power, and their armies were there - simply handed over Israel to the Jews. I don't think that this was an act of friendship, this was an act of absolute enmity." They have created an eternal trouble spot for Jews for the future, one which will never be solved; there is no...
... find his way out of the jungle for three days... and then came the night. Three days hungry... and he was afraid all the time of the wild animals, so in the nights he was sitting in the trees. And then came the fullmoon night. He has written such beautiful poems about the full moon. No poet can afford not to write about the full moon; it has such a hypnotic power. It is the purest poetry. Heinrich...
... finish it! -- but the religious leaders will not like it, because the religious leaders have power over the poor, not over the rich. Who will give Mother Teresa a Nobel Prize if there are not orphans to be found on the streets in Calcutta? Just a one-day-old child, and the mother or the father has dropped it by the side of the road because they cannot manage its upbringing. And Mother Teresa and her...
... is ugly, you can possess the person. The ugly person will depend on you. If the person is beautiful, the beautiful person will possess you. Beauty is power, it is tremendous power. The ugly person will become a slave, a servant. The ugly person will in every way substitute for the beauty that is missing in him or her. The ugly woman will be a better wife than a beautiful woman. She will have to be...
... should not be only food, should not be only sex, should not be only money, should not be only power. It should not be any ONE thing, it should be many things, the whole variety. All the dimensions should remain available, then you will be rich. A passionate millionaire has fallen in love and broken women's hearts countless times. He begins each letter to his new sweethearts: "My darling, and...
... will find these people everywhere. There are people who think only of money - as if their whole life has only one goal: to leave in the world as big a bank balance as possible. There are people who only want some political power. Their whole life is devoted to only one thing: how to become the president of a country, or the prime minister of a country. These are obsessed people. They have missed...
... whatsoever you invent will be untrue - all inventions are lies. Truth has to be discovered, not invented. Einstein discovers a certain law; Patanjali also discovers a certain law; Newton discovers gravitation, Krishna discovers grace - both are laws. One belongs to the earth, the other belongs to the sky; one belongs to the world of necessity, the other belongs to the world of power. One belongs to the...
.... If you go on deciding at each step of your life on your own, slowly slowly, you accumulate freedom. Then freedom becomes a power in you, and freedom is the greatest gift of God. But you have to be worthy of it. Don't throw your responsibilities on others. It is easier, because it gives you a chance to say, "What can I do?" If you have found a wrong wife, what can you do? Your parents are...
... them; they are motivated. And because they have certain motives in them, they are not pure. They are impure, polluted. There is some desire lurking, hence they remain crawling on the earth. To fall in love with a Buddha, with a Christ, is to start flying into the sky. The disciples soar upwards, they enter into the world of the second law, the law of power, the law of grace. They are freed from the...
... finished. They don't know anything else; they know only how to climb ladders. So they feel very stuck. It always happens to people. Somebody has learnt how to accumulate wealth, and he goes on and on... and finally he has more than he had ever dreamt, and now he does not know what to do. He knows only one thing: how to accumulate. Somebody goes on a power trip, becomes the prime minister of a country...
... East is all discontent - with whatever wealth it has, with whatever position and prestige it has, the East is discontented. India has also tested its atom bomb, and the whole Indian mind is so joyous, so happy as if this is some great achievement. You don't stop to consider the fact that even if you have nuclear energy, you will still remain a third-rate power in the world. You will still be only...
... a poor man selling his house to celebrate Diwali, the festival of lights, who sets off a few fireworks and is very pleased. The children in his house are dying of hunger and outside the house he has arranged a show of fireworks. These atomic explosions are mere fireworks but that is where our interests lie today. We are eager for money, power, prestige, and when Westerners come to the East in...
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