"The inner world is almost like the sky – it is the inner sky. And the people who have entered the inner world also cannot leave footprints. It is just to say that you cannot follow them from the outside, through their words, through their scriptures. You have to go into yourself, and suddenly you will be surprised that you have disappeared and a buddha has appeared. You were not following Buddha’s footprints – he cannot make any. In the sky you cannot write anything.

"All the scriptures and all the great religions are befooling and exploiting the masses. One has to go within, and all the religions are supporting you to go out – toward Jesus, toward Moses, toward Mohammed, toward Buddha, but go outward. Follow their teachings, follow their commandments. That is what Buddha says is going astray.

"No buddha can leave any footprints, so how can you follow him? Following is simply impossible. You can only go within yourself. You can understand a living buddha, you can absorb his energy; you can hear his song, you can understand his silence; you can be filled by his presence – but this is not following. This is simply the alchemy of being with a master. You can simply disappear in the silences of the master. But you are not following his footprints; you are going within yourself, you have your own path from the circumference to the center."