Osho:
Bliss is a flowering of meditation.
Meditation is like a rose bush
And bliss is like roses.
Without meditation
There are no flowers in life and no fragrance,
One lives utterly empty, meaningless.
One’s whole life remains just like a driftwood;
Accidental, with no sense of direction.
One does not know why one is doing this or that
Why one is alive at all — for what?
One has no answers and because to know
That ‘I have no answers,’
One never raises the questions
Because those questions hurt,
They make you aware of your ignorance.
One avoids the questions so that one can remain
Unaware that one’s life is absolutely pointless
One keeps oneself occupied
Into thousand and one small things, tiny goals:
Achieve money, power, prestige
Do this, do that — very short-sighted goals.
And you can achieve money and you can have power
But nothing happens out of it
Because you remain the same.
Then have no money, then have more power
And there is no end to it.
It is chasing shadows. It is such a stupid act
But everybody goes into it because one finds
Everybody else going into it
And people are imitators.
Source – Osho Book “No Man is an Island”