"God is where you are; you are because of God. God is in your breathing, God is your life. There is no other God than life.

"To avoid life, people have created images of God; they are not images of God, they are escapes from God. People are avoiding God, hence they have made temples and mosques and gurudwaras and churches. These are not made by religious people, remember, these are made by the irreligious. Those who don't want to get involved with God, those who want to postpone it have created the temples and the so-called religions. Those religions give you a feeling that God will be in the future, in some other country, in some other land, in some other space, in some other world, but never here. And he is here.

"He is here in the songs of the birds and the green of the trees and the red of the trees and the gold of the trees. He is in the bird on the wing, he is everywhere. You need not even go outside yourself to find him. He is your innermost core, your substratum, your very being. How can you wait for him? It will be just like a fish in the ocean waiting for the ocean; it will be utterly foolish.

"So all waiting is for Godot. All waiting is futile, a waste. If you wait, you are avoiding the guest who has already come. He is knocking on the door in the wind, in the rain, in the sun; he wants to enter into you, and you are doing your prayer in a shrine, secluded. Or you are sitting in your cave waiting for God. Who are you trying to deceive? You don't want to receive the guest right now: be truthful. You are afraid to receive the guest; it may disturb your whole pattern of life. It is certainly going to disturb your whole pattern of life.

"To receive God means a death, a disappearance, because the two cannot exist together, you and God.

"Martin Buber, one of the great thinkers of this century, says the relationship between man and God is that of 'I-thou.' It is not: there is no 'I' and no 'thou.' It is not a relationship at all, because relationship needs at least two."