"Fear of depth has created shallowness in all relationships. They have become juvenile.

"A boyfriend or a girlfriend may be fun, but cannot become a door to the deepest that is hidden in each and everyone. With a girlfriend you can be sexually related, but love cannot grow. Love needs deep roots. Sexuality is possible on the surface, but sexuality is just animal, biological. It can be beautiful if it is part of a deeper love, but if it is not part of a deeper love it is the most ugly thing possible; the ugliest, because then there is no communion: you simply touch each other and separate. Only bodies meet, but not you; not I, not thou. This has happened in all relationships.

"But the greatest relationship, between a master and a disciple, has completely disappeared. You will not be able to understand Jesus if you cannot understand the dimension of that relationship which exists between a master and his disciples. It has completely disappeared. The wife is substituted by a girlfriend, the husband is substituted by a boyfriend, but the master, and the relationship that exists between him and his disciples, has completely disappeared. Or, this relationship has been substituted by the very contrary thing that exists between a psychiatrist and his patient.

"A relationship exists between a psychiatrist and his patient which is bound to be ill, pathological, because a patient comes not in search of truth, is really not in search of health… This word health is very meaningful: it means wholeness, it means holiness, it means a deep healing in the self. A patient does not come for health, because if he comes for health he cannot be anything other than a disciple. A patient comes to get rid of an illness; the attitude is totally negative. He has come just to be forced to become normal again, just to become a working part of the normal world again. He has become maladjusted; he needs adjustment and the psychiatrist helps him to be adjusted again. But adjusted to whom? – adjusted to this world, this society which is absolutely ill.

"What you call the 'normal' human being is nothing but normal pathology or normal madness, normal insanity."