“Jews have always insisted that the name of God should not be uttered because once you utter it you falsify it. It is not utterable, it is inexpressible. You can contain it in your heart but you cannot relate it. You can become it but you cannot express it. Jews are perfectly right in their feeling about it. God is not a being, it is a phenomenon – so vast, so infinite, that no word can contain it. Only the infinite heart can contain it, the infinite inner emptiness can contain it.

     “When you enter within yourself, you will feel you are entering into a space where you are going to be lost. Just as a drop of water entering into the ocean is lost, you will be lost – that is the fear. That is why you become afraid of death and you start dreaming – future, projections. First, entry into your being is always like death – it is a crucifixion, it is a cross. But if you are courageous enough…

     “Cowards can never become religious. Only very rare courageous souls, who can take the risk of being lost, arrive. You have to pay for it, and nothing less will do. You have to lose yourself to gain it.

     “Once you are ready to enter into the emptiness, suddenly the fear disappears. The same energy becomes a celebration; you can dance because that which appeared as emptiness was an interpretation of the mind. It was not empty; it was so full that the mind could not understand the fullness of it.”