The Material and the Spritual

The Book of Understanding - Osho

The human being is like a tree, with its roots in the earth and the potential to flower. Science cares the roots, religion, the flower. What we need is a meeting of earth and sky: heaven and earth are united, utterly physical with a great consciousness, no split between matter and spirit, between the mundane and the sacred. Zorba is the root; Buddha is the flowering. It means living life wholeheartedly.

Jesus says, "Man cannot live by bread alone." But you cannot live without bread either. Two dimensions have to be both fulfilled, to be given equal opportunity for growth. The East has chosen consciousness and has condemned matter and everything material as maya. They have Buddha, but they also have millions of poor people. The West, in its pursuit of material abundance, lost its soul. What they have is meaninglessness, boredom, anguish. The house is full of things, but the master of the house is missing. In the East, on the contrary, the master is alive but the house is empty.

Live life undivided. Religions create duality in the human mind. If you are whole, you are beyond their control. 

(Zorba the buddha, Kabir-one of the 99 names of God in Islem, Nanak- a guru, Farid)