"Drop all childish attitudes; don't go on searching for a father. Divineness is, God is not; when I say divineness is I mean whatsoever is, is full of God. The green of the trees, and the red and the golden: all is divine. This crow crying, and a bird on the wing, and a child giggling, and a dog barking: all is divine. Nothing else exists.

"The moment you ask, 'Where is God?' you have raised a wrong question because God cannot be indicated anywhere. He is not in a particular direction, he is not a particular thing, he is not a particular being. God is universality. Ask where God is not, then you have asked the right question but for that right question you will have to prepare the soil of your heart. That's what I mean by love – preparing the soil of your heart. If you are full of love, the world is full of God – they go parallel, they are part of one symphony.

"God is the echo from the universe. When you are in love the echo is there; when you are not in love how can there be an echo? It is only you who are reflected again and again in millions of ways, it is you who are thrown back to yourself again and again. If you are in love, God is. If you are not in love, then what to say about God? Even you are not.

"I was thinking what I should give you today – because this is my birthday, I was incarnated into this body on this day. This is the day I first saw the green of the trees and the blue of the skies. This was the day I opened my eyes for the first time and saw God all around. Of course the word God didn't exist at that moment, but what I saw was God. I was thinking what I should give to you today, then I remembered a saying of Buddha: Sabba danam dhamma danana jnati – the gift of truth excels all other gifts. And my truth is love.

"The word truth looks to me a little too dry and desert-like."