Rajneesh Quotes

Existence does not listen to your desires, and does not follow your desires, however beautiful and however pious. Existence goes on in its own way.

The real honesty is a responsibility to the present moment. It needs tremendous awareness. You have to be honest to the present moment, not to the past, not to the future.

If you want to become an infinite source of love, then go on sharing love as much as you can. Don't be a miser; only misers lose energy.

Medicine heals the body, meditation heals the soul. Medicine is outwardly, meditation is inwardly. And man is whole only when medicine and meditation are together in deep harmony.

Mind concentrates: it acts out of the past. Meditation acts in the present, out of the present.

Unless you have the courage to doubt you will never come to know the truth.

Your ego is just an idea implanted in your mind. It is poisonous. Your ego keeps driving you madder and madder.

Your mind is a constant traffic of thoughts, and it is always rush hour, day in, day out. Meditation means to watch the movement of thoughts in the mind.

People keep planning their lives searching security and comfort. This silence is the only security I know those who can understand will understand.

You have to drop all your defenses, only then is intimacy possible. We are all hiding a thousand and on things, not only from others but from ourselves.

Enlightenment is finding that there is nothing to find. Enlightenment is to come to know that there is nowhere to go.

When you are no more, only then for the first time will you be.

Pleasure is always something apposed to pain it is never separate from pain

Mind is the absence of meditation. The moment meditation arises in you, mind is found nowhere.

Mind is just in the middle. You are nothing but a mess. If you can go beyond it, intelligence grows in you; if you go below it, any intelligence that you had disappears.

The people who crucified Jesus were not able to see his godliness at all; they could only see the mischief in him.

Relationship is a mirror.. Every moment the other reveals you, exposes you. The closer the relationship, the clearer is the mirror.

The moment you enter into the world of words you start falling away from that which is. The more you enter into language, the farther you are away from existence.

When you understand yourself, that very day you have understood the whole of humanity. Then nobody can make you miserable.

God is your very being. So the first thing is, don't think about enlightenment as a goal.

The day effort ceased, I also ceased. Because you cannot exist without effort, and you cannot exist without desire, and you cannot exist without striving.

Meditation is a death - death of all that you are now. Of course there will be a resurrection, but that will be a totally new, fresh original being which you are not even aware is hidden in you.

When sadness comes, accept it. Listen to its song. It has something to give to you. It has a gift which no happiness can give to you, only sadness can give it.

All our attachments are outward oriented and hence this illusion.

People are not things, you cannot have ownership.

Be a loving person rather than in a love relationship - because relationships happen one day and disappear another day. They are flowers; in the morning they bloom, by the evening they are gone.

Sometimes happiness comes, sometimes sadness, anger, jealousy - you need not make them your problems

Remain a witness to your emotions as if from a great distance an eagles eye view

That is one of the great secrets of life, that life is a movement. And if you are stuck somewhere you lose contact with life.

Only those persons who have lived, really lived, are ready, welcoming, receptive, thankful to death. Then death is not the enemy. Then death becomes the fulfillment.

Jesus was a crackpot.

When your ego is no more, only then will you know who you are.

Start and finish your day with laughter, and you will see, by and by, in between these two more and more laughter starts happening. And the more laughing you become, the more religious.

If you have found your truth within yourself there is nothing more in this whole existence to find.

Freedom is our most precious treasure. Don't lose it for anything. . . .

Meditation makes you innocent, it makes you childlike. In that state, miracles are possible. That state is pure magic.

The only way to know something absolutely is to experience it for yourself; anything less is theory, speculation, and belief. .

Don't call it uncertainty-call it wonder.

God is there only if you surrender. Surrender makes anything God. Surrender give you the eyes, and everything that is brought to these eyes becomes Divine.

Every answer will make more questions

This is what I mean by becoming religious: no guilt, no ego, no trip of any kind...just being herenow...being with the trees and the birds and the rivers and the mountains and the stars.

Just be yourself, it means to be beautiful.

Only silence communicates the truth as it is.

Don't be bothered by perfection. Replace the word 'Perfection' by 'Totality. Totality will give you a different dimension.

Your life sparks fires from within your innermost temple. No one can reach there but you, it is your inner sanctum. You are your own master there, only you can reach and ignite the fire.

Remember, frustration is out of expectation, and ego is always expecting. The ego is a beggar.

Dont avoid extremes, and dont choose any one extreme. Remain available to both the polarities - that is the art, the secret of balancing.

You will not become dependent on the people you love. You will share - and sharing is beautiful.

Always choose the new, the less travelled by. Always choose the unknown, the less travelled by.

You cannot possess all and everything. Whatsoever you possess will not give you contentment. The mind, the ego, will always feel unfulfilled.