"The moment you accept yourself then there is no need for any future, because there is no need to improve upon anything. Then all is good, then all is good as it is. In that very experience life starts taking a new color, a new music arises.

"If you accept yourself, that is the beginning of accepting all. If you reject yourself you are basically rejecting the universe. If you reject yourself you are rejecting God, if you accept yourself you have accepted God. Then there is nothing else to do but to enjoy, to celebrate. There is no complaint left, there is no grudge; you feel grateful. Then life is good and death is good, then joy is good and sadness is good, then to be with your beloved is good and to be alone is good. Then whatsoever happens is good because it happens out of God.

"But you have been conditioned for centuries not to accept yourself. All the cultures of the world have been poisoning the human mind, because they all depend on one thing: improve upon yourself. They all create anxiety in you; anxiety is the tense state between that which you are and that which you should be. People are bound to remain anxious if there is a 'should' in life. If there is an ideal which has to be fulfilled how can you be at ease, how can you be at home? It is impossible to live anything totally because the mind is hankering for the future and that future never comes – it cannot come; by the very nature of your desire it is impossible. When it comes you will start imagining other things, you will start desiring other things.

"You can always imagine a better state of affairs. And you can always remain in anxiety, tense, worried – that's how humanity has been living for centuries. Only rarely, once in a while, has a man escaped out of the trap. That man is called a buddha, a christ.

"The awakened man is one who has slipped out of the trap of the society, who has seen it, that this is just absurdity. You cannot improve upon yourself – and I am not saying that improvement does not happen, remember, but you cannot improve upon yourself."